Found 3 items, similar to Telescoping.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: telescope keker, teropong
English → English (WordNet) Definition: telescope telescope n : a magnifier of images of distant objects [syn: scope] telescope v 1: crush together or collapse; “In the accident, the cars telescoped”; “my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack” 2: make smaller or shorter; “the novel was telescoped into a short play”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Telescoping Telescoping \Tel"e*scop`ing\ (t[e^]l"[-e]*sk[=o]p`[i^]ng), a. Capable of being extended or compacted, like a telescope, by the sliding of sections or parts one within the other; telescopic; as, telescoping tripod legs; a telescoping table, etc.; -- a term replacing the formerly used telescope. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] Telescope \Tel"e*scope\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Telescoped; p. pr. & vb. n. Telescoping.] To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another; to become compressed in the manner of a telescope, due to a collision or other force. [Recent] [1913 Webster +PJC]