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What does the word telescope mean?

Part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive

To drive together, one within another, like the sections of a small telescope.

Part of speech: noun

An optical instrument for enlarging the image of a distant object, as a star.

Usage examples for telescope

" What did the telescope show? – The Gun by Philip K. Dick
The lines most conspicuous in the telescope are, in short, those which have been favoured by a combination of circumstances as reviewed above, among which crustal features have, in some cases, played a part. – The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by J. (John) Joly
So I stood and saw The canvas telescope her mother carried. – Domesday Book by Edgar Lee Masters