telescope

1. An arrangement of lenses or mirrors or both that gathers visible light, permitting direct observation or photographic recording of distant objects.

2. Any of various devices, such as a radio telescope, used to detect and observe distant objects by their emission, transmission, reflection, or other interaction with invisible radiation.

3. A usually tubular optical instrument for viewing distant objects by means of the refraction of light rays through a lens or the reflection of light rays by a concave mirror .

4. Any of various tubular magnifying optical instruments.

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1. To become forced together lengthwise with one part entering another as the result of collision.

2. To slide or pass one within another like the cylindrical sections of a collapsible hand telescope.

3. To become compressed or condensed.

4. To cause to telescope.

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1. To slide inward or outward in or as if in overlapping cylindrical sections: a camp bucket that telescopes into a disk.

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1. To cause to slide inward or outward in overlapping sections, as the cylindrical sections of a small hand telescope do.

2. To make more compact or concise; condense.

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
telescope	13	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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5 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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6 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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7 Letters	Scrabble® Points
celeste	9
steeple	9

9 Letters	Scrabble® Points
telescope	13