Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being extended or compacted, like a telescope, by the sliding of sections or parts one within the other; telescopic; ; -- a term replacing the formerly used
telescope .
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- verb Present participle of
telescope .
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Examples
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Able to reproduce both sexually and asexually, aphid populations can increase in size at exponential rates: when asexual females are pregnant, their embryos are also pregnant, so females can carry both their daughters and granddaughters, a condition called telescoping of generations.
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News 2010
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The cars have been criticized by federal safety officials as being prone to "telescoping" in crashes.
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Federal safety officials have criticized the cars as being prone to "telescoping" in crashes.
Airports authority says cost of developing rail car could bust deal with Metro 2010
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Denise Mina, however, uses a modified version of it in FIELD OF BLOOD, which I dubbed "telescoping" when I stumbled on it, but now think might exemplify central intelligence.
What's your point? 2007
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Imagine that you can grab handles on the ends of the two branches and move them up and down, in and out, with some kind of telescoping mechanism.
Wolfram Blog : Why Spend More Than Five Minutes on a GUI? 2007
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A spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board said the agency's investigation would include an inquiry into the role of "telescoping," in which a train plows into another, climbs atop its roof and collapses into itself like a retracting telescope, which appears to be what happened Monday, based on the wreckage.
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Denise Mina, however, uses a modified version of it in FIELD OF BLOOD, which I dubbed "telescoping" when I stumbled on it, but now think might exemplify central intelligence.
What's your point? 2007
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Just be aware that, depending on your gender and what it is you're looking at, you're liable to experience other types of "telescoping" as well.
About Face: Cycling and Changing Direction BikeSnobNYC 2009
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The cervical cases are recognised by the "telescoping" of the neck, the head and thorax being unduly approximated; the dorsal cases by the well-known _hump_ or _hunch-back_, in which the spinous processes of the collapsed vertebræ constitute the apex of the hump; the thorax is telescoped from above downwards, the ribs are crowded together, the lower ones, it may be, inside the iliac crests, and the sternum projected forwards.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Slip, or "telescoping" joints could be incorporated in the design where the prefabricated tunnel sections intersect the seawalls.
Russia Blog william 2010
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