Definition of telescope

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Telescope (n.) An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies..

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Comet- Seeker :: Comet- seeker (n.) A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets..
Perspicil :: Perspicil (n.) An optical glass; a telescope.
Binocular :: Binocular (n.) A binocular glass, whether opera glass, telescope, or microscope..
Image :: Image (n.) The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror..
Collimation :: Collimation (n.) The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper position relative to the other parts of the instrument..
Erector :: Erector (n.) An attachment to a microscope, telescope, or other optical instrument, for making the image erect instead of inverted..
Telespectroscope :: Telespectroscope (n.) A spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or stars..
Telescopist :: Telescopist (n.) One who uses a telescope.
Telescope :: Telescope (n.) An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies..
Photoheliograph :: Photoheliograph (n.) A modified kind of telescope adapted to taking photographs of the sun.
Rille :: Rille (n.) One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon..
Trombone :: Trombone (n.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whos
Heliometer :: Heliometer (n.) An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.
Tube :: Tube (n.) A telescope.
First-class :: First-class (a.) Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope..
Eyeglass :: Eyeglass (n.) Eyepiece of a telescope, microscope, etc..
Telescopically :: Telescopically (adv.) In a telescopical manner; by or with the telescope.
Telescope :: Telescope (a.) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another..
Binocular :: Binocular (a.) Adapted to the use of both eyes; as, a binocular microscope or telescope..
Diskless :: Diskless (a.) Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope..
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