Usually means: Optical instrument magnifies distant objects.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. telescope: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. telescope: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. telescope: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. telescope: Collins English Dictionary
  5. telescope: Vocabulary.com
  6. Telescope, telescope: Wordnik
  7. telescope: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Telescope: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. telescope: Wiktionary
  10. telescope: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. telescope: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. telescope: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. telescope: Dictionary.com
  14. telescope: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. telescope: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Telescope (TV series), Telescope (disambiguation), Telescope (goldfish), Telescope (song), Telescope, The Telescope (Magritte), The Telescope (album), The Telescope (magazine), The Telescope (painting): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Telescope: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. telescope: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. telescope: Rhymezone
  20. telescope: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. telescope: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. telescope: Free Dictionary
  23. telescope: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. telescope: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. telescope: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. telescope: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. The telescope: Legal dictionary
  2. telescope: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The telescope, telescope: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Telescope (disambiguation), The telescope, telescope: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. telescope: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. telescope: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Telescope: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  3. Telescope: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. telescope: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  5. TELESCOPE: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. telescope, telescope: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. telescope, the telescope: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See telescoped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
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.

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