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How to pronounce “telescope”
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Pronunciation guide for telescope
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of telescope with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Why we need the explorers
get a telescope, swing it to the sky,
- Definition summary
- A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce telescope
Why we need the explorers

get a telescope, swing it to the sky,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “telescope”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
- Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
- (television) A retractable tubular support for lights.
- A kind of goldfish with protruding eyes, first bred in China.
- [Verb]
- (ambitransitive) To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
- (ambitransitive) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
- (intransitive) To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
- (ambitransitive, mathematics, of a series) To collapse, via cancellation.
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