telescope

== English == === 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. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɛl.ɪ.skəʊp/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɛl.əˌskoʊp/ Hyphenation: tele‧scope === Noun === telescope (plural telescopes) A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy. Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope). (television) A retractable tubular support for lights. A kind of goldfish with protruding eyes, first bred in China. ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Idioms ==== through the wrong end of the telescope ==== Translations ==== === Verb === telescope (third-person singular simple present telescopes, present participle telescoping, simple past and past participle telescoped) (ambitransitive) To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope. (ambitransitive) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass. (intransitive) To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another. (ambitransitive, mathematics, of a series) To collapse, via cancellation. === See also === binoculars microscope === References === “telescope”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.