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Definition: Meaning of, telescope in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈtɛlɪskəʊp /

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telescope telescopes
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  1. a piece of equipment shaped like a tube, used for making distant objects look larger and closer
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Prsesent Past Past Participle
telescope telescoped telescoped
Present Participle Third Person Singular
telescoping telescopes
  1. [transitive] to make a process or set of events happen in a shorter time
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  2. [intransitive] if something telescopes, the parts of it press together or slide over each other, and it becomes smaller
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telescope used in phrases

  • Cassegrainian telescope (noun)
    1. a reflecting telescope that has a paraboloidal primary mirror and a hyperboloidal secondary mirror; light is brought to a focus through an aperture in the centre of the primary mirror
  • Galilean telescope (noun)
    1. a type of refracting telescope that is no longer used in astronomy
  • Gregorian telescope (noun)
    1. a reflecting telescope that has a paraboloidal primary mirror and a hyperboloidal secondary mirror; light is brought to a focus through an aperture in the centre of the primary mirror
  • Herschelian telescope (noun)
    1. a reflecting telescope with the mirror slightly tilted to throw the image to the side where it can be viewed
  • Hubble Telescope, the
    1. a very powerful TELESCOPE (= a piece of equipment for making distant objects look larger and closer) which is attached to a SATELLITE in space, going around the Earth, and can see much further into space than TELESCOPEs on Earth
  • Maksutov telescope (noun)
    1. reflecting telescope in which the aberration of the concave mirror is reduced by a meniscus lens
  • Newtonian telescope (noun)
    1. reflecting telescope in which the image is viewed through an eyepiece perpendicular to main axis
  • Schmidt telescope (noun)
    1. reflecting telescope that has plate that corrects for aberration so a wide area of sky can be photographed
  • astronomical telescope (noun)
    1. any telescope designed to collect and record electromagnetic radiation from cosmic sources
  • coudé telescope (noun)
    1. a reflecting telescope so constructed that the light is led to a plate holder or spectrograph
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