Telescoping

Quick meaning: Telescoping is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of telescope.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of telescope.

More Meanings

1. Synonym of telescopable.
2. The act of extending or contracting in the manner of a telescope.
3. Extending limited data to make up for gaps
4. A telescopic action.
5. (psychology) The temporal displacement of an event in which people perceive recent events as being more remote than they are and distant events as being more recent than they are.

Example Sentences

intermediate stages of telescoping of the parts together

The telescoping effect is divided into backward telescoping and forward telescoping.

Here we will show that telescoping is a result of the way the question is asked rather than a result of the compression of time.

Telescoping happens in two directions: While forward telescoping describes the tendency of dating past events too close to the present, backward telescoping describes the opposite effect, that is, dating past events too far to the past.

Word Forms

• telescopings

Synonyms for telescoping

Depending on context, synonyms include telescopable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scope, telescopable, telescopic, extendable, protractable, extendible.

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