n. 25B6; noun SPYGLASS; informal scope. See list.
25B6; verb
the front of the car was telescoped : CONCERTINA, compact, compress, crush, squash.
his experience can be telescoped into a paragraph : CONDENSE, shorten, reduce, abbreviate, abridge, summarize, precis, abstract, shrink, consolidate; truncate, curtail.
Types of Telescope
almucantar Maksutov telescope
altazimuth telescope meridian circle
astronomical telescope monocular
Cassegrain telescope Newtonian telescope
cathetometer radio telescope
collimator reflecting telescope
coudé telescope refracting telescope
Dobsonian telescope Schmidt telescope
equatorial telescope Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
finder space telescope
Galilean telescope telescopic sight
Gregorian telescope terrestrial telescope
heliometer