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Määritelmät

Substantiivi

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. (television) A retractable tubular support for lights.
4. A kind of goldfish with protruding eyes, first bred in China.

Verbi

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