Usually means: Instruments for viewing distant objects magnified.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. telescopes: Merriam-Webster
  2. telescopes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. telescopes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Telescope's, Telescopes, telescope's, telescopes: Wordnik
  5. telescopes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. telescopes: Wiktionary
  7. telescopes: Dictionary.com
  8. telescopes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Telescopes (EP), Telescopes, The Telescopes (album), The Telescopes (band), The Telescopes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. telescopes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. telescopes: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. telescopes: Encyclopedia

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (telescope)

noun:  A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
noun:  Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
noun:  (television) A retractable tubular support for lights.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
verb:  (intransitive) To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
verb:  (ambitransitive, mathematics, of a series) To collapse, via cancellation.
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