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Teleskop — meaning in English

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English meaning

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

Senses

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

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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