telescope
pronunciation
How to pronounce telescope in British English:
UK [ˈtelɪskəʊp]
How to pronounce telescope in American English:
US [ˈtelɪskoʊp]
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- Noun:
- a magnifier of images of distant objects
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- Verb:
- crush together or collapse
- make smaller or shorter
Word Origin
- telescope (n.)
- 1640s, from Italian telescopio (Galileo, 1611), and Modern Latin telescopium (Kepler, 1613), both from Greek teleskopos "far-seeing," from tele- "far" (see tele-) + -skopos "watcher" (see scope (n.1)). Said to have been coined by Prince Cesi, founder and head of the Roman Academy of the Lincei (Galileo was a member). Used in English in Latin form from 1619.
- telescope (v.)
- "to force together one inside the other" (like the sliding tubes of some telescopes), 1867, from telescope (n.). Related: Telescoped; telescoping.
Example
- 1. The image was taken by the hubble space telescope .
- 2. But the telescope is deteriorating .
- 3. A hubble space telescope shows mars .
- 4. The telescope has three highly sensitive infrared cameras .
- 5. Maybe , it should look like a telescope .