telescope

Etymology
. From, from , from +.

Coined in 1611 by the Greek mathematician Giovanni Demisiani for one of Galileo Galilei's instruments presented at a banquet at the Accademia dei Lincei. .

Noun

 * 1) A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
 * 2) Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
 * 3)  A retractable tubular support for lights.
 * 1) Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
 * 2)  A retractable tubular support for lights.
 * 1) Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
 * 2)  A retractable tubular support for lights.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, ,
 * Aragonese: telescopio
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: দূৰবীন
 * Asturian: telescopiu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: телескоп
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: тэлеско́п
 * Bengali: দূরবিন, ,
 * Bihari: दूरबीन
 * Bulgarian: телеско́п,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 望遠鏡
 * Hokkien:, 召鏡
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash: телескоп
 * Corsican: telescopiu
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: teleskopo
 * Estonian: teleskoop
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: telescopi
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ტელესკოპი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: दूरबीन
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: telescopio
 * Irish: cianradharcán, teileascóp
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, テレスコープ
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: телескоп
 * Khmer: កែវយឹត, យឹតយឺត
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ກ້ອງຊ່ອງທາງໄກ,, ກ້ອງສ່ອງດາວ,
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: teleskopas
 * Macedonian: телескоп
 * Malay: teleskop, teropong jauh
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: paikaraihe, karuwhakatata
 * Mongolian: ,
 * Navajo: tózis bee adéestʼį́ʼígíí
 * Neapolitan: ucchiarone
 * Nepali: टेलिस्कोप
 * Newar: लुसाः
 * Norman: longue-veue
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: teleskop
 * Nynorsk: teleskop
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: آینه
 * Pashto: تېلسکوپ, ټليسکوپ, ,
 * Persian:, اختربین
 * Piedmontese: telescòpi
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਟੈਲੀਸਕੋਪ
 * Romagnol:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: glainne-amhairc
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: телескоп, далекозор
 * Roman: ,
 * Shona: chiringakure
 * Sicilian: telescopiu
 * Sinhalese: දුරේක්‍ෂය
 * Slovak:, ďalekohľad
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: daksipat
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: телескоп
 * Tausug: talumpung
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:, กล้องดูดาว,
 * Tibetan: རྒྱང་ཤེལ
 * Turkish:, , böng
 * Turkmen: teleskop
 * Ukrainian: далекогля́д, телеско́п
 * Urdu: دوربین
 * Uyghur: تېلېسكوپ
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: (鏡天文),  (鏡遠望)
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: pellweledydd, telesgop
 * West Frisian: teleskoop
 * Yiddish: טעלעסקאָפּ
 * Yoruba: tẹ́lískópù

Verb

 * 1)  To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
 * 2)  To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
 * 3)  To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
 * 4)  To collapse, via cancellation.
 * 1)  To collapse, via cancellation.