telescope

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   make smaller or shorter

   the novel was telescoped into a short play

2. 2
   verb

   crush together or collapse

   In the accident, the cars telescoped

3. 3
   noun

   A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.

   It needs a scientific telescope, it needs to be reinterpreted and artificially brought near us, before we can so much as know that it was a Sun.

4. 4
   noun

   A retractable tubular support for lights.

   In some studios the telescopes are fixed to the lighting grid […]

5. 5
   noun

   A kind of goldfish with protruding eyes, first bred in China.

   Chinese Telescopes are sold by some dealers for young Japanese Fringetails. For this reason it is well to select a reliable dealer when purchasing choice stock.

6. 6
   verb

   To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.

   Hugo rose to his full height, which was triple that of Grunt Buggely’s, even without his neck telescoped.

7. 7
   noun

   a magnifier of images of distant objects

8. 8
   noun

   Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).

Etymology

From tele- + -scope. From Latin tēlescopium, from Ancient Greek τηλεσκόπος (tēleskópos, “far-seeing”), from τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “to look at”). 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. Doublet of Telescopium.