Telescope

Quick meaning: Telescope is a noun meaning A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
2. (television) A retractable tubular support for lights.
3. A kind of goldfish with protruding eyes, first bred in China.
4. (ambitransitive) To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
5. (ambitransitive) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
6. (intransitive) To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
7. (ambitransitive, mathematics, of a series) To collapse, via cancellation.

Example Sentences

In some studios the telescopes are fixed to the lighting grid […]

It is scarcely possible to avoid comparing the eye to a telescope.

Hugo rose to his full height, which was triple that of Grunt Buggely’s, even without his neck telescoped.

It needs a scientific telescope, it needs to be reinterpreted and artificially brought near us, before we can so much as know that it was a Sun.

Word Forms

• telescopes
• telescoping
• telescoped

Synonyms for telescope

Depending on context, synonyms include scope.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scope, binoculars, periscope, glass, window, sniper.

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