telescope

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  1. noun An arrangement of lenses or mirrors or both that gathers visible light, permitting direct observation or photographic recording of distant objects.
  2. noun Any of various devices, such as a radio telescope, used to detect and observe distant objects by their emission, transmission, reflection, or other interaction with invisible radiation.
  3. transitive verb To cause to slide inward or outward in overlapping sections, as the cylindrical sections of a small hand telescope do.
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  • Unfortunately, after the first flush of enthusiasm, the senators heard the sobering news that the telescope was already widespread throughout Europe, and when the official document was drawn up it stipulated that Galileo would only get his raise at the expiration of his existing contract a year later and that he would be barred, for life, from any increase of salary. —  Galileo in Rome
  • The thousands of digital images taken by his telescope are available online to students at participating schools, who use free software to create time-lapse series of photos. —  News from www.pantagraph.com
  • Other telescopes have now observed SN 2009ab, but the AlbaNova telescope was the first to successfully take images and confirm it as a new supernova. —  Universe Today
  • It was actually Galileo Galilei who first saw these moons around Jupiter and Kepler started talking about them before he'd actually seen them because the way to see them was with this new invention called a telescope, and Johannes Kepler couldn't get his hands on one of those. —  podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
  • When historic comets are whizzing by, such as the recent Comet Lulin, the telescope is a popular destination for anyone who wants a look. —  Tucson Weekly
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  1. New Latin telescopium or Italian telescopio, both from Greek tēleskopos, far-seeing : tēle-, tele- + skopos, watcher; see spek- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French télescope = Spanish Portuguese Italian telescopio = Dutch teleskoop = G. Swedish Danish teleskop, etc., from New Latin telescopium (New Greek τηλεσκό-πιον), from Greek τῆλε, afar, + σκοπείν, view.
  2. from telescope, n.
 

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