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Telescope
ˈtɛlɪskəʊp
Telescope definitions
noun
telescope
telescopes
- an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors and lenses, by which rays of light are collected and focused and the resulting image magnified
verb
telescope
telescoped
telescopes
telescoping
- (with reference to an object made of concentric tubular parts) slide or cause to slide into itself, so that it becomes smaller
"five steel sections that telescope into one another"
slide together collapse- crush (a vehicle) by the force of an impact
"he drove right into another car—telescoped it"
- condense or conflate so as to occupy less space or time
"a large portion of the past had to be telescoped and summarized for her"