télescope — meaning in English

English meaning

• glass noun A hard, usually transparent material made by melting sand with other minerals, used for windows, bottles, and similar items.
• telescope noun An optical instrument that makes distant objects look closer and larger, especially used to view the night sky.

Senses

télescope 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.
• glass A telescope.
• telescope A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.

glass — full definition

1. noun A hard, usually transparent material made by melting sand with other minerals, used for windows, bottles, and similar items.
2. noun A drinking vessel made of this material, or the amount of liquid it holds.
3. noun A mirror.

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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