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  • noun Plural form of telescope.

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  • Those telescopes, in which the observer, placed at the anterior extremity of the tube, looks direct into the tube and turns his back to the objects, were called by Herschel _front view telescopes_.

    Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Baden Powell 1819

  • A problem with this kind of telescopes is that the flux of muons from the cosmic ray interactions in the sky above the telescopes is by far larger than the expected amount of muons from neutrino interactions.

    High Energy Neutrinos from Cosmos 2005

  • The positive refractive indices of normal materials necessitate the use of curved lenses, which inherently distort some of the light that passes through them, in telescopes and microscopes.

    Semiconductor Structure Bends Light ‘Wrong’ Way | Impact Lab 2007

  • One of them is the coelostat, the instrument used in telescopes to keep the images of the stars in place for arbitrarily long periods of exposures.

    Lippmann's and Gabor's Revolutionary Approach to Imaging 2005

  • Mr. Dawes saw that the instruments must be of great excellence, and the outcome of the matter was that he ordered one or more telescopes from the American maker.

    The Reminiscences of an Astronomer Simon Newcomb 1872

  • If you want big telescopes, that is far easier done with on orbit assembly than it is done with an 8 meter fairing launcher.

    Shuttle-C - NASA Watch 2009

  • | Reply re Wingo: "If you want big telescopes, that is far easier done with on orbit assembly than it is done with an 8 meter fairing launcher."

    Shuttle-C - NASA Watch 2009

  • She looked at you with eyes that were like tin telescopes.

    Lorelei 2010

  • She looked at you with eyes that were like tin telescopes.

    Lorelei 2010

  • She looked at you with eyes that were like tin telescopes.

    Lorelei 2010

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