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. David Boboltz:

   These first images are just the beginning, over the next six months, the Inouye telescope's team of scientists, engineers and technicians will continue testing and commissioning The Inouye Solar Telescope to make The Inouye Solar Telescope ready for use by the international solar scientific community. The Inouye Solar Telescope will collect more information about our Sun during the first five years of The Inouye Solar Telescope lifetime than all the solar data gathered since Galileo first pointed a telescope at the Sun in 1612.

2. Dan Wilkins:

   It's got a much bigger mirror than we've ever had on an X-ray telescope and it's going to let us get higher resolution looks in much shorter observation times, so, the picture we are starting to get from the data at the moment is going to become much clearer with these new observatories.

3. Joachim Saur:

   I was always brainstorming how we could use a telescope in other ways, is there a way you could use a telescope to look inside a planetary body? Then I thought, the aurorae! Because aurorae are controlled by the magnetic field, if you observe the aurorae in an appropriate way, you learn something about the magnetic field. If you know the magnetic field, then you know something about the moon's interior.

4. Scott Goss:

   One day mankind will create a telescope so powerful that we can peer so far into the heavens that we will find ourselves looking up our own ass. We will turn to one another and exclaim, aliens? And they will say no assholes there are no aliens just assholes.

5. The ESA:

   Right now, there is still a lot of' viewing margin' around the disc, enabling stunning detail to be captured by FSI out to about 3.5 million kilometres, equivalent to five times the radius of the Sun, at closest approach on 26 March, which will see the spacecraft pass within about 0.3 times the Sun-Earth distance, the Sun will fill a much larger portion of the telescope's field of view.