telescope
noun/ˈtelɪskəʊp/
/ˈtelɪskəʊp/
- a piece of equipment like a tube in shape, containing lenses, that you look through to make objects that are far away appear larger and nearer
- to look at the stars through a telescope
Extra ExamplesTopics Spaceb2, Scientific researchb2- She set up her telescope on the balcony.
- These stars are too faint to been seen without a telescope.
- They've built the largest telescope in the world.
- images from the Hubble space telescope
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- powerful
- 60 mm
- etc.
- …
- use
- point
- set up
- …
- through a/the telescope
- with a telescope
- without a telescope
- …
- the wrong end of a telescope
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Italian telescopio or modern Latin telescopium, from tele- ‘at a distance’ + -scopium (from Greek skopein ‘look at’).Definitions on the go
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