telescope

Universal Words noun, verb noun a piece of equipment shaped like a tube, containing LENSES, that you look through to make objects that are far away appear larger and nearer: to look at the stars through a telescope seealsoRADIOTELESCOPE verb 1 [V, VN] to become shorter, or make sth shorter, by sliding sections inside one another 2 [VN] ~ sth (into sth) to reduce sth so that it happens in less time: Three episodes have been telescoped into a single programme.