Definitions for telescope

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telescope tel·e·scope

Spelling: [tel-uh-skohp]

IPA: /ˈtɛl əˌskoʊp/

Telescope is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 322 anagrams from letters in telescope (ceeelopst).

Definitions for telescope

noun

1. 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.
2. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Telescopium.

adjective

1. consisting of parts that fit and slide one within another.

verb (used with object)

1. to force together, one into another, or force into something else, in the manner of the sliding tubes of a jointed telescope.
2. to shorten or condense; compress:

verb (used without object)

1. to slide together, or into something else, in the manner of the tubes of a jointed telescope.
2. to be driven one into another, as railroad cars in a collision.
3. to be or become shortened or condensed.

Origin of telescope

1610-20; tele-¹ + -scope; replacing telescopium (New Latin; see -ium) and telescopio (

Examples for telescope

And let me say: those baffles make the telescope ugly, like its own mama puts a bag over its head before kissing it goodnight.

This telescope had not been of great service to him since the autumn of 1671.

Their financial rating was so high that you couldn't see it without a telescope.

If you live in a place with a dark night sky, you might be able to see M31 without a telescope.

So while doomsday believers make a mad dash towards their shelters in 2029, I'll be going straight to a telescope.

I visited the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico two years ago, where the telescope taking data for BOSS is located.

The worst I do is to look at them the wrong way of the telescope.

The night before I had looked at them with a telescope from the foot of the mountain.

But the results coming out of BOSS are beautiful, even if the telescope is hideous.

This was the great mission of the telescope in Galileo's hands.