Usually means: Optical telescope using lenses, magnification.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word refracting telescope:

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

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

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (refracting telescope)

noun:  A telescope which produces a magnified image by refracting light through a series of lenses housed in a tube, with a light-gathering objective lens at one end and an eyepiece at the other.

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