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Examples of telescope in a Sentence
The rings of Saturn can be seen through a telescope.
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With help from one of Earth's most powerful telescopes, an international team of astronomers has snapped a spectacular snapshot of a newborn planet emerging from the disk of gas and debris surrounding its host star.
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That’s the home of the Florida’s largest publicly accessible refractor telescope, armed with a 10-inch lens.
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The first planet found with the aid of a telescope, Uranus was discovered in 1781 by astronomer William Herschel, NASA said.
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The key to this conclusion comes from an analysis of Oumuamua’s trajectory as measured by a variety of telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope, by Marco Micheli of the European Space Agency’s SSA-NEO Coordination Centre, in Frascati, Italy.
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View cloud tops of Jupiter and 4 largest moons through historic telescopes (weather permitting).
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The transit method, used by Kepler and other telescopes to watch for dips in a star's light when a planet passes in front, has since revealed thousands more planets beyond the solar system.
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Scientists want to discover planets that are less than four times the radius of Earth, and then use other telescopes to determine the mass of 50 of them.
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When that happened, observatories around the world, from an optical telescope in the Canary Islands to a gamma-ray observatory orbiting hundreds of miles above the Earth, leapt to action.
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Origin and Etymology of telescope
New Latin telescopium, from Greek tēleskopos farseeing, from tēle- tele- + skopos watcher; akin to Greek skopein to look — more at spy
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First Known Use: 1650
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearDefinition of telescope
telescoped;
telescoping
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: to become forced together lengthwise with one part entering another as the result of collision
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: to slide or pass one within another like the cylindrical sections of a collapsible hand telescope
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: to become compressed or condensed
Examples of telescope in a Sentence
for dramatic purposes, the film telescopes the years over which the events occurred into a few short months
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The vehicle is heavily armed, with a 40-millimeter gun firing cased telescoped ammunition.
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That car, which bowed in 1989, was priced well below its competitors and offered Japanese reliability alongside new features such as an automatic tilt-and-telescoping steering wheel and power-adjustable seat belts.
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The adaptation by Ursula Rani Sarma effectively telescopes the epic plot.
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The restaurant has become very popular very quickly with a combination of good food, reasonable pricing and a casual but celebratory interior that telescopes the experience.
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Cased telescoped ammo, in which the projectile is fully enclosed in a shell casing, is only now coming into common use with modern armies and results in a more compact projectile.
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David Childs’s design for 35 Hudson Yards (a.k.a. the Equinox Tower) evolved from a set of telescoping oval cylinders skirted in limestone drapery to a twisting tube of limestone-and-glass mesh woven like a finger trap.
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As far as stagecraft, most of the money seemed to go toward a set of telescoping light rigs that rose from and descended back into the stage in a busy but not-terribly-exciting show of mechanical choreography.
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Once you’re done with the floors, a telescoping microfiber can handle furniture, countertops, ceiling fans, and other hard-to-reach areas.
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First Known Use of telescope
1866
TELESCOPE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of telescope for English Language Learners
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: a device shaped like a long tube that you look through in order to see things that are far away
telescope
Definition of telescope for English Language Learners
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: to become shorter by having one section slide inside another somewhat larger section
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: to make (something) shorter in length or time
TELESCOPE Defined for Kids
Definition of telescope for Students
: a piece of equipment shaped like a long tube that has lenses for viewing objects at a distance and especially for observing objects in outer space
Definition of telescope for Students
telescoped;
telescoping
: to slide or force one part into another
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