telescopic
telescope
verb[ I or T ]
uk /ˈtel.ɪ.skəʊp/ us /ˈtel.ə.skoʊp/
to make or become shorter by reducing the length of the parts: 缩短；变短
We had to telescope five visits into two days.我们只得把5次拜访压缩在两天之内完成。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Becoming and making smaller or less
abridgment
attenuate
attenuated
attenuating
attenuation
compress
contraction
deflation
dwindle
dwindling
ease
ease someone's mindidiom
ease up/off
halve
recede
reduce
reducible
reduction
resize
trough

telescope | American Dictionary

telescope
noun[ C ]
us/ˈtel·əˌskoʊp/

telescopenoun[C] (DEVICE)

a cylindrical device that you look through to make objects that are far away look nearer and bigger

telescopic

adjective[ not gradable ]us/ˌtel·əˈskɑp·ɪk/
My camera’s telescopic lens lets me take great close-ups.
telescope
verb[ T ]
us/ˈtel·əˌskoʊp/

telescopeverb[T] (SHORTEN)

to shorten something:
Redford telescoped decades of history into a two-hour TV show.

Examples of telescope

telescope
One form of recall bias called ' telescoping ' is especially important in this type of study.
Being prospective in nature and diary based, it was less subject to recall bias and ' telescoping ' of symptoms into short periods.
The further out the telescopes probed, the darker and more alien it became.
Figure 2 shows the logistical problems of maneuvering long telescopes even on calm days; one did not observe in the wind.
State-of-the-art instrumentation incorporated in huge ground-based radio telescopes may be able to discover these electromagnetic signatures, maybe only by means of sophisticated observational methods.
Any interesting candidates could be examined more carefully with larger telescopes.
A total of five vacuum telescopes are employed for magnification of the beam, relay imaging and spatial filtering.
In our corpus there are 353 phonological errors involving single consonants or vowels other than telescoping errors.
Symmetrically, the rejection of these discoveries did not result from cosmological or perceptual incommensurabilities or from the lack of a satisfactory description of the telescope's workings.
The practical upshot of these calculations is that it would make sense to search for life on the surface of objects in the outer solar system with ground-based telescopes.
In 15 cases (50 %), the tones of the two target syllables are the same, suggesting that telescoping is more likely to take place between adjacent syllables with the same tone.
There was almost certainly considerable underreporting of some kinds of victimizations, due to a combination of forgetting and embarrassment, as well as overreporting due to telescoping.
Generally, this unwanted vibration limits the operation of high performance positioning systems such as robots, optical telescopes and space structures, and some effective techniques to reduce this vibration are needed.
The additional material related to outer planet moons describes the complex geology attached to those moons which, not many years ago, were simply points of light in astronomers' telescopes.
Regular sessions are also held at dark sky sites where student telescopes and binoculars are used to look at various objects, promoting the practical aspects of the course.
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Collocations withtelescope

telescope

These are words often used in combination with telescope.

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amateur telescope
This requires optical quality a little better than the human eye but much less precise than an ordinary off-the-shelf amateurtelescope.
ground-based telescope
This method of search may be used either with space-based or with ground-based telescopes.
large telescope
He used a 220 mm aperture refractor, a largetelescope at that time.
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