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noun
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an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
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adjective
3.
consisting of parts that fit and slide one within another.
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Telescoped
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
verb (used with object)
4.
to force together, one into another, or force into something else, in the manner of the sliding tubes of a jointed telescope.
5.
to shorten or condense; compress: to telescope the events of five hundred years into one history lecture.
verb (used without object)
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to slide together, or into something else, in the manner of the tubes of a jointed telescope.
7.
to be driven one into another, as railroad cars in a collision.
8.
to be or become shortened or condensed.
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| telescoped | |
adjective | |
| shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another; "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars"; "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream" |
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