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▸ noun: Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
▸ noun: (television) A retractable tubular support for lights.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive, mathematics, of a series) To collapse, via cancellation.
Similar:
scope,
optical telescope,
stenometer,
speculum,
monoscope,
telephoto lens,
telespectroscope,
spotting scope,
telephotometer,
magnascope,
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