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| tel·e·scope [ téllə skp ] |
noun (plural tel·e·scopes) |
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1. device for looking at distant objects: a device for making distant objects appear nearer and larger by means of compound lenses or concave mirrors
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2. astronomy
Same as radio telescope
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verb (past and past participle tel·e·scoped, present participle tel·e·scop·ing, 3rd person present singular tel·e·scopes) |
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1. intransitive verb collapse neatly inside one another: to slide neatly one inside another like the sections of a telescope
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2. transitive verb condense something: to make something shorter in time or length
  telescoped his adventure into a one-hour talk
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| [Mid-17th century. < Italian telescopio or modern Latin telescopium, both literally "looking far" < Greek skopein "look"] |
