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telescope

te·les·cope

UK/ˈtɛl.ɪ.skəʊp/ US/ˈtɛl.əˌskoʊp/ fairly common
verb (2) noun (1)

verb

1.

crush together or collapse

  • “In the accident, the cars telescoped”
  • “my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack”
2.

make smaller or shorter

  • “the novel was telescoped into a short play”

noun

1.

a magnifier of images of distant objects

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Origin

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.

Phrases

  • telescope bag
  • telescope house
  • telescope word
  • through the wrong end of the telescope

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