meaning of telescope
1. An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.
2. To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
3. To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope.
4. a magnifier of images of distant objects
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