Found 3 items, similar to telescope.
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: telescope
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]