Synonyms for telescope
ˈtɛl əˌskoʊptele·scope

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1. telescope, scopeverb

   a magnifier of images of distant objects

   Synonyms:
   reach, setting, range, cathode-ray oscilloscope, scope, ambit, background, compass, orbit, oscilloscope

2. telescopeverb

   crush together or collapse

   "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"

3. telescopeverb

   make smaller or shorter

   "the novel was telescoped into a short play"

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1. • Condense
   • Crush

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1. telescopenoun

   Synonyms:
   spy-glass

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1. List of paraphrases for "telescope":

   binoculars, telescopes, periscope

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1. The ESA Woerner:

   To test how to use lunar material to build some structures, not only houses, but also for a telescope or whatever, will teach us also how to do it on Mars.

2. Naomi Rowe-Gurney:

   The JWST gives us the ability to look at both Uranus and Neptune in a completely new way because we have never had a telescope of this size that looks in the infrared, the infrared can show us new depths and features that are difficult to see from the ground with the atmosphere in the way and invisible to telescopes that look in visible light like Hubble.

3. Heidi Hammel:

   By monitoring auroral activity on exoplanets, we may be able to infer the presence of water on or within an exoplanet, now, it's not going to be easy — it's not as easy as Ganymede and Jupiter, and that wasn't easy. It may require a much larger telescope than Hubble, it may require some future space telescope, but nevertheless, it's a tool now that we didn't have prior to this work that Joachim and his team have done.

4. Tomoharu Oka:

   Investigations of gas motion with radio telescopes may provide a complementary way to search for dark black holes, the ongoing wide area survey observations of the Milky Way with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope and high-resolution observations of nearby galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have the potential to increase the number of black hole candidates dramatically.

5. James Henry Leigh Hunt:

   Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.