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telescope
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/ˈtɛl.ɪ.skəʊp/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
An instrument that makes distant objects look closer.
- 02
noun
Extra detailA retractable tubular support for lights.
Examples
We can see distant objects with a telescope.
You can see the stars with your naked eye, and even better through a telescope.
At a glance
Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale
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- Parts of speech
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- Citations
- 5
Also pronounced
- /ˈtɛl.əˌskoʊp/
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsAny instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
A kind of goldfish with protruding eyes, first bred in China.
More examples
In contextIt is scarcely possible to avoid comparing the eye to a telescope.
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.
Hugo rose to his full height, which was triple that of Grunt Buggely’s, even without his neck telescoped.
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Origin
noun
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.