Telescope

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An arrangement of lenses or mirrors or both that gathers light, permitting direct observation or photographic recording of distant objects. noun

Any of various devices, such as a radio telescope, used to detect and observe distant objects by their emission, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic radiation. noun

To cause to slide inward or outward in overlapping sections, as the cylindrical sections of a small hand telescope do. intransitive verb

To make more compact or concise; condense. intransitive verb

To slide inward or outward in or as if in overlapping cylindrical sections. intransitive verb

To drive into one another like the movable joints or slides of a spy-glass: as, in the collision the forward cars were telescoped; to shut up or protrude like a jointed telescope.

To move in the same manner as the slides of a pocket-telescope; especially, to run or be driven together so that the one partially enters the other: as, two of the carriages telescoped.

An optical instrument by means of which distant objects are made to appear nearer and larger. noun

capitalized Same as Telescopium. noun

A telescope with its tube completely filled with water. Such an instrument was used by Airy at Greenwich, about 1870, as part of a zenith-sector, in order to settle by observation certain questions relating to the aberration of light. noun

To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another; to become compressed in the manner of a telescope, due to a collision or other force. intransitive verb

To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope. transitive verb

To shorten or abridge significantly. transitive verb

Capable of being extended or compacted, like a telescope, by the sliding of joints or parts one within the other; telescopic adjective

An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies. noun

See under Achromatic. noun

A telescope having an aplanatic eyepiece. noun

A telescope which has a simple eyepiece so constructed or used as not to reverse the image formed by the object glass, and consequently exhibits objects inverted, which is not a hindrance in astronomical observations. noun

A reflecting telescope invented by Cassegrain, which differs from the Gregorian only in having the secondary speculum convex instead of concave, and placed nearer the large speculum. The Cassegrainian represents objects inverted; the Gregorian, in their natural position. The Melbourne telescope (see Illust. under Reflecting telescope, below) is a Cassegrainian telescope. noun

See under Dialytic. noun

A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.

Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).

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Nouns that are often described by the adjective telescope:
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