kaukoputki — meaning in English

English meaning

• spyglass noun A small portable telescope.
• telescope noun An optical instrument that makes distant objects look closer and larger, especially used to view the night sky.

Senses

kaukoputki is used for these senses in English:

• Telescopium (constellation) A small faint constellation of the southern winter sky, said to resemble a telescope. It lies south of the constellation of Corona Australis.
• spyglass A small portable telescope.
• telescope A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.

spyglass — full definition

1. noun A small portable telescope.
2. noun A pair of binoculars.

telescope — full definition

1. noun An optical instrument that makes distant objects look closer and larger, especially used to view the night sky.
2. verb To slide sections into one another so the whole thing collapses shorter, like the tube of a telescope.

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