Synonyms for telescope
ˈtɛl əˌskoʊptele·scope

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1. telescope, scopeverb

   a magnifier of images of distant objects

   Synonyms:
   reach, setting, range, cathode-ray oscilloscope, scope, ambit, background, compass, orbit, oscilloscope

2. telescopeverb

   crush together or collapse

   "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"

3. telescopeverb

   make smaller or shorter

   "the novel was telescoped into a short play"

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1. • Condense
   • Crush

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1. telescopenoun

   Synonyms:
   spy-glass

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1. List of paraphrases for "telescope":

   binoculars, telescopes, periscope

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1. Scott Goss:

   One day mankind will create a telescope so powerful that we can peer so far into the heavens that we will find ourselves looking up our own ass. We will turn to one another and exclaim, aliens? And they will say no assholes there are no aliens just assholes.

2. The National:

   Yellowstone regulations require visitors to stay 100 yards from black and grizzly bears at all times. The best defense is to stay a safe distance from bears and use binoculars, a telescope or telephoto lens to get a closer look.

3. Susan Taing:

   The horn shape was obvious at first, because of gramophones and horns, but when you channel sound through a tube, it seems far away. So this telescope-looking one didn’t work out.

4. Eleonora Troja:

   The 2016 event was very exciting at first. It was nearby and visible with every major telescope, including Very Large Telescope. But it didn't match our predictions -- we expected to see the infrared emission become brighter and brighter over several weeks.

5. Heidi Hammel:

   By monitoring auroral activity on exoplanets, we may be able to infer the presence of water on or within an exoplanet, now, it's not going to be easy — it's not as easy as Ganymede and Jupiter, and that wasn't easy. It may require a much larger telescope than Hubble, it may require some future space telescope, but nevertheless, it's a tool now that we didn't have prior to this work that Joachim and his team have done.