I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
radio telescope
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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The larger the telescope , the more light it can collect, and the higher the magnification which can be employed.
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The search proper requires a much larger telescope , away from city lights.
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Photographs taken with large telescopes are needed to bring out their vivid colours, and with binoculars they appear white and milky.
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All larger telescopes cover far smaller areas.
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When astronomers could build a large enough telescope they would see the lunar inhabitants going about their daily lives.
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But large telescopes are in great demand and are often booked up months in advance.
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New large telescopes may clarify how galaxies form - at present a surprisingly difficult puzzle - and why they cluster.
powerful
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Armed with powerful telescopes , they're trying to spot a Peregrine Falcon chick, born just two weeks ago.
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They were so-named two centuries ago because they resembled planets when viewed through the much less powerful telescopes of the time.
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Over subsequent decades several more were discovered, essentially by accident on celestial photographs obtained with powerful telescopes .
small
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The innovation brought only mixed success, and the small telescope has now fallen into disrepair.
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The separation is 35 seconds of arc, and in any small telescope the two make a lovely spectacle.
■ NOUN
radio
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Despite the recent decline in interest, there were several radio telescopes set to receive the signal when it came.
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In astronomy the transmitter is usually a radio telescope , and it usually acts also as the detector.
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Perversely, doing this will require the biggest and best of radio telescope arrays.
space
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Until then, the space telescope will continue to do what it can.
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Four years ago Hubble space telescope scientists tried looking not at light but at dark.
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Many scientists wrote off the space telescope as doomed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another scientist might have proposed a modification in the optical theory governing the operation of the telescopes used in the investigation.
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As with telescopes, the larger the aperture the greater the light-grasp, but there are hazards too.
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Far down the inverted telescope he saw the faint white figure of May Welland-in New York.
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I looked through the telescope and saw a small boy with a bag over his shoulder.
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Inside one of the observatories was the telescope that I knew immediately would make a perfect backdrop for the portrait.
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The light blinds and freezes the animal, and the shooter, using a telescope , aims between the eyes.
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These telescopes revealed ice caps at both poles of Mars and documented seasonal changes in color and contrast.
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Yet, when we acquire a brass telescope , it remains a brass telescope despite inevitable deterioration.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The play's three acts are admirably telescoped into a 2 1/2-hour program.
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The steering wheel can be tilted up and down and telescoped in and out.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Acting together, the two groups serve as retractors by telescoping the abdomen.
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Below is a revolving stage with a telescoping wall.
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Buildings, black as anthracite, were receding or telescoping down, rumbling as they moved, clearing a field for battle.
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On and on it goes: Past events are telescoped into those of today.
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Tilt and telescoping steering wheels are there for comfort.
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Time telescoped strangely - they were in the lane, in the wood, opposite the house.
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Two quite different events, occurring some seventy years apart, appear to have been garbled or telescoped in this passage.