telescope

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Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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Definition

  1. noun a magnifier of images of distant objects
  2. verb crush together or collapse
  3. verb make smaller or shorter

Etymology

From tele- + -scope. From Latin tēlescopium, from Ancient Greek τηλεσκόπος (tēleskópos, “far-seeing”), from τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “to look at”). Coined in 1611 by the Greek mathematician Giovanni Demisiani for one of Galileo Galilei's instruments presented at a banquet at the Accademia dei Lincei. Doublet of Telescopium.

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