What does telescope mean?
Definitions for telescope
ˈtɛl əˌskoʊptele·scope
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Princeton's WordNet
telescope, scopeverb
a magnifier of images of distant objects
telescopeverb
crush together or collapse
"In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"
telescopeverb
make smaller or shorter
"the novel was telescoped into a short play"
Wiktionary
telescopenoun
A monocular optical instrument possessing magnification for observing distant objects, especially in astronomy.
telescopenoun
Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
telescopeverb
To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
TELESCOPEnoun
A long glass by which distant objects are viewed.
Etymology: telescope, Fr. τέλος and σϰοπέω.
The telescope discovers to us distant wonders in the heavens, and shews the milky way, and the bright cloudy spots, in a very dark sky, to be a collection of little stars. Isaac Watts.
Wikipedia
Telescope
Telescope is a song recorded by American actress Hayden Panettiere. The song was written by Hillary Lindsey and Cary Barlowe. It was released to country radio in October 2012 by Big Machine Records. It was the first official single from the album The Music of Nashville: Season 1 Volume 1. The album also features a version of the song recorded by sisters Lennon and Maisy Stella. The UK compilation The Music of Nashville, Season 1: The Complete Collection (aka Nashville Deluxe) also includes a version recorded live in Nashville by Panettiere. Panettiere and Lennon Stella recorded a version for the season four episode "Stop the World (And Let Me Off)," released as a digital single.
ChatGPT
telescope
A telescope is an optical instrument designed to observe distant objects by collecting and magnifying light, typically through the use of lenses or mirrors. It is used in astronomy to observe stars, planets, galaxies, and other celestial bodies. Some specialized telescopes can also detect invisible forms of light, such as radio waves and X-rays, to provide valuable information about the universe.
Webster Dictionary
Telescopenoun
an optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies
Telescopeadjective
to slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another
Telescopeverb
to cause to come into collision, so as to telescope
Wikidata
Telescope
A telescope is an instrument that aids in the observation of remote objects by collecting electromagnetic radiation. The first known practical telescopes were invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century, using glass lenses. They found use in terrestrial applications and astronomy. Within a few decades, the reflecting telescope was invented, which used mirrors. In the 20th century many new types of telescopes were invented, including radio telescopes in the 1930s and infrared telescopes in the 1960s. The word telescope now refers to a wide range of instruments detecting different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, and in some cases other types of detectors. The word "telescope" was 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. In the Starry Messenger Galileo had used the term "perspicillum".
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Telescope
tel′e-skōp, n. an optical instrument for viewing objects at a distance.—v.t. to drive together so that one thing, as a railway-carriage in a collision, slides into another like the movable joints of a spyglass.—v.i. to be forced into each other in such a way.—adjs. Telescop′ic, -al, pertaining to, performed by, or like a telescope: seen only by a telescope.—adv. Telescop′ically.—adj. Tel′escopiform.—ns. Tel′escopist, one who uses the telescope; Tel′escopy (or tē-les′-), the art of constructing or of using the telescope. [Fr.,—Gr. tēle, at a distance, skopein, to see.]
Editors Contribution
telescope
A type of instrument.
The children love the telescope and use it to view the stars as often as possible.
Submitted by MaryC on March 15, 2020
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of telescope in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of telescope in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of telescope in a Sentence
It is very much like looking for a needle in a haystack as the night sky covers a very large area that can only be searched one telescope pointing at a time.
At this resolution, the telescope could resolve the two headlights of a car in Miami, seen from New York City.
The development of Lunar Crater Radio Telescope could produce some significant breakthroughs along the way, particularly for deployment technologies and the use of robots to build gigantic structures off Earth, i'm proud to be working with this diverse team of experts who inspire the world to think of big ideas that can make groundbreaking discoveries about the universe we live in.
Through the use of these major observatories, we have identified a new way of identifying triple supermassive black holes. Each telescope gives us a different clue about what's going on in these systems, we hope to extend our work to find more triples using the same technique.
Investigations of gas motion with radio telescopes may provide a complementary way to search for dark black holes, the ongoing wide area survey observations of the Milky Way with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope and high-resolution observations of nearby galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have the potential to increase the number of black hole candidates dramatically.
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- منظار, مقراب, تلسكوبArabic
- телескопBulgarian
- telescopiCatalan, Valencian
- dalekohledCzech
- teleskopDanish
- Fernrohr, TeleskopGerman
- τηλεσκόπιοGreek
- teleskopoEsperanto
- telescopioSpanish
- teleskopioBasque
- تلسکوپ, اختربینPersian
- teleskooppi, kaukoputkiFinnish
- télescope, lunetteFrench
- teileascóp, cianradharcánIrish
- glainne-amhaircScottish Gaelic
- telescopioGalician
- दूरबीनHindi
- teleszkópHungarian
- teropong, teleskopIndonesian
- teleskopoIdo
- sjónaukaIcelandic
- cannocchiale, telescopioItalian
- テレスコープ, 望遠鏡Japanese
- 望遠鏡, 망원경Korean
- teleskopsLatvian
- paikaraiheMāori
- телескопMacedonian
- teropong jauh, teleskopMalay
- teleskopNorwegian
- telescoop, kijkerDutch
- teleskopNorwegian Nynorsk
- telescòpiOccitan
- teleskopPolish
- telescópioPortuguese
- telescop, lunetăRomanian
- телескопRussian
- далекозор, dalekozor, teleskop, телескопSerbo-Croatian
- ďalekohľad, teleskopSlovak
- daljnogledSlovene
- chiringakureShona
- teleskopiAlbanian
- teleskopSwedish
- darubiniSwahili
- தொலைநோக்கிTamil
- దూరదర్శినిTelugu
- กล้องโทรทรรศน์Thai
- daksipatTagalog
- teleskopTurkish
- телескопUkrainian
- daleskopVolapük
- 望远镜Chinese
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