Usually means: Summing series by cancelling terms.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. telescoping: Merriam-Webster
  2. telescoping: Collins English Dictionary
  3. telescoping: Vocabulary.com
  4. Telescoping, telescoping: Wordnik
  5. telescoping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. telescoping: Wiktionary
  7. telescoping: Dictionary.com
  8. telescoping: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Telescoping (mechanics), Telescoping (rail cars), Telescoping (railway), Telescoping: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Telescoping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Telescoping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. telescoping: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Telescoping: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. telescoping: Legal dictionary
  2. Telescoping: Radio Programming and Production

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. telescoping: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. telescoping: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. telescoping: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)

(Note: See telescope as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (telescoping)

adjective:  Synonym of telescopable
noun:  The act of extending or contracting in the manner of a telescope.
noun:  Extending limited data to make up for gaps
noun:  A telescopic action.
noun:  (psychology) The temporal displacement of an event in which people perceive recent events as being more remote than they are and distant events as being more recent than they are.

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