Usually means: Telescope using mirrors to magnify.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. reflecting telescope: Merriam-Webster
  2. reflecting telescope: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reflecting telescope: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reflecting telescope: Collins English Dictionary
  5. reflecting telescope: Vocabulary.com
  6. reflecting telescope: Wordnik
  7. reflecting telescope: Wiktionary
  8. reflecting telescope: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. reflecting telescope: Dictionary.com
  10. Reflecting telescope: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. reflecting telescope: Rhymezone
  12. reflecting telescope: FreeDictionary.org
  13. reflecting telescope: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. reflecting telescope: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reflecting telescope: Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Reflecting Telescope: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Reflecting Telescope: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. REFLECTING TELESCOPE: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

(Note: See reflecting_telescopes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (reflecting telescope)

noun:  A telescope which produces a magnified image by reflecting light through a series of mirrors housed in a tube, using a large curved mirror to gather the light and one or more additional mirrors to transmit the light to an eyepiece.

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