Telescope
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English
Noun
Telescope (plural Telescopes)- A monocular optical instrument possessing magnification for observing distant objects, especially in astronomy.
- Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
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Telescope (third-person singular simple present Telescopes, present participle telescoping, simple past and past participle telescoped)
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Verbs for Telescope
contemplate through—; design—; direct— at; discern through—; level—at; mount—; peek through—; peer through—; perceive through—; rivet—on; scan with—; squint into—; study through—; survey with—; — aids; —clarifies; —discovers; —distinguish-
Thesaurus
Cassegrainian telescope, Newtonian telescope, OAO, OSO, abbreviate, abridge, abstract, astronomical observatory, astronomical telescope, binoculars, bob, boil down, capsulize, clip, coelostat, compress, concertina, condense, contract, coronagraph, coronograph, crop, crush, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, digest, dock, elide, epitomize, field glass, foreshorten, glass, heliostat, mow, nip, observatory, opera glasses, orrery, planetarium, poll, pollard, precis, prune, radar telescope, radio observatory, radio telescope, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, reflector, refractor, retrench, scope, shave, shear, shorten, snub, spectrograph, spectroheliograph, spectrohelioscope, spectroscope, spy glass, spyglass, squash, stunt, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take in, terrestrial telescope, trim, truncate, zenith tube, zoom binoculars
Etymology
From Latin telescopium, from Ancient Greek τηλεσκόπος (tēleskopos, “far-seeing”), from τῆλε (tēle, “afar”) + σκοπέω (skopeō, “I look at”).
Coined in 1611 by the Greek mathematician Giovanni Demisiani for one of Galileo Galilei's instruments presented at a banquet at the Accademia dei Lincei.
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