telescope
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
mathematics
media
sciences
television
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.
Affixes: tele-
-scope
Inflected forms:
form: telescopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: telescopes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: telescoping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: telescoped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: telescoped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
It is scarcely possible to avoid comparing the eye to a telescope.
About ten months ago a report reached my ears that a Dutchman had constructed a telescope, by the aid of which visible objects, although at a great distance from the eye of the observer, were seen distinctly as if near; […]
This was one of the great missed opportunities of theoretical physics. If Einstein had stuck with his original equations, he could have predicted that the universe must be either expanding or contracting. As it was, the possibility of a time-dependent universe wasn't taken seriously until observations in the 1920s by the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson.
The 1.2-meter-diameter (4-foot-diameter) telescope has set off on a monthlong journey to its orbital destination of the sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, which is nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away from Earth and also home to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Euclid will keep pace with Earth as our planet orbits the sun.
gloss: Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
pos: noun
gloss: A retractable tubular support for lights.
pos: noun
examples: In some studios the telescopes are fixed to the lighting grid […]
gloss: A kind of goldfish with protruding eyes, first bred in China.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Hugo rose to his full height, which was triple that of Grunt Buggely’s, even without his neck telescoped.
gloss: To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To collapse, via cancellation.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Related words: binoculars
microscope
Derived words: binoscope
digiscope
hypertelescope
phototelescope
radiotelescope
telescopable
telescope bag
telescopefish
telescope house
telescoper
telescope word
telescopic
telescopically
telescopiform
telescoping
telescopist
telescopy
through the wrong end of the telescope
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