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Meanings of telescopic in English
Movement of one part sliding out from another, lengthening an object, or quality of a mechanism that performs such a movement.
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Usage of telescopic in English
1
The moon perhaps is the easiest of all objects of telescopic observation.
2
Jupiter is one of the easiest of all objects of telescopic observation.
3
He'd pulled a telescopic steel truncheon out from under his body armour.
4
The new telescopic sight had twice the magnifying power of the older model.
5
He lifted the Dragunov and brought the telescopic sight to his right eye.
6
The periscopes were of the telescopic variety that could be raised and lowered.
7
De Soya sees the screen lurch forward as telescopic magnification begins.
8
Each carried a nonmilitary, large-calibered rifle with a telescopic sight attached.
9
The rifle he held was a.22, and it had a small telescopic sight.
10
They had given him a huge Mauser with a telescopic sight.
11
A naval officer craned along the seventeen-feet barrel, peering through the telescopic sights.
12
He'd have needed a telescopic leg to hook that one home.
13
In 1890, he took out the first of several patents on telescopic sights.
14
The heartbroken person stoops over and takes a telescopic view of my haberdashery.
15
Observation is the only help and mine has been mostly telescopic.
16
Jacob goes back to surveying the crowd through the telescopic lens.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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