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TELESCOPING
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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TELESCOPING. The contraction of a phrase, word, or part of a word, on the analogy of a telescope being closed:
biodegradable for
biologically degradable;
sitcom for
situation comedy. There are two main processes: (1) Adapting classical combining forms through reducing the first word in a compound or fixed phrase: when
biologically degradable is telescoped to
biodegradable,
bio- refers not to life alone but to biology; when
telephone communications is reduced to
telecommunications,
tele- refers to the whole technology of remote communication. (2) Creating syllabic
ACRONYMS like
sitcom and blends like
smog. The reduction of a series of words to some of their component syllables (or syllable-like elements) creates such new usages as
sitrep for
situation report,
Saceur for
Supreme Allied Commander Europe, and
NAVFORKOR for
Naval Forces Korea. Such forms are common in military, industrial, and technical usage. See
ABBREVIATION.
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Telescope Optics
Magazine article from: Spectroscopy; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...spectroscopic issue in telescopes: their basic optics. The telescope was invented...Ritchey-Chrtien telescope. Further Design...Most modern telescopes used by amateur...Cassegrain telescope. Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes combine the...
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TELESCOPES SEEK BLASTS FROM PAST
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/12/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...When it comes to using telescopes as time machines...bigger the mirror of a telescope, the more light it...outperforming the huge Keck I telescope on Hawaii's Mount...wider. But putting telescopes in orbit and maintaining...Next Generation Space Telescope, now scheduled for...
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Telescopes and lenses.
Magazine article from: Science Weekly; 2/14/2005; 700+ words
; ...Reflecting Telescopes In 1668, Isaac...new kind of telescope, a reflecting telescope, that uses...In reflecting telescopes, the incoming...dwarfed by several telescopes now being built...Extremely Large Telescope (CELT) will...
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Telescope race builds on future of grand visions.(Wire National)(In planning stages, the giant instruments promise to yield finer, deeper space pictures)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 2/4/2008; 700+ words
; ...super-size telescopes will yield...Hubble Space Telescope, which was...Webb Space Telescope, scheduled...proposed giant telescopes, astronomers...use in large telescopes was in 2003 at the twin-telescope Keck Observatory...
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Telescope to aid student research
Newspaper article from: Honolulu Star - Bulletin; 6/25/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...looking up at the stars from a remotely operated telescope on Maui. The world's largest telescope for education and scientific outreach is being...plus ongoing expenses. A nonprofit Faulkes Telescope Corp. set up in Hawaii will own and manage...
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Telescope on firm footing.
Newspaper article from: AZ Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ); 8/12/2006; 700+ words
; ...ground-based telescopes of its size has...Discovery Channel Telescope, with its thick...observations. While the telescope will be the fifth...dwarfed by "large" telescopes, like the 10...flexible as other telescopes... To service...astronomy staff, a telescope with this aperture...
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The telescopes of the Australia Telescope Compact Array in Narrabri; New Australia Telescope 'eyes' look at exploded star.
M2 Presswire; 11/15/2001; 700+ words
; ...2001-CSIRO: The telescopes of the Australia Telescope Compact Array in...CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility...supernova since telescopes were invented four...The Australia Telescope is the most advanced...
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Telescope design opens new vistas for sun studies.
Magazine article from: Laser Focus World; 7/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Observatory (NSO) vacuum telescope at Sacramento Peak, NM...newest French and Italian telescope on Tenerife, Canary Islands...could allow the building of telescopes with an even larger mirror...a project to build a solar telescope with an aperture of 200 to...
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Telescope will draw a crowd: ; Byrd, 600 scientists expected to attend Green Bank event
Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail; 8/24/2000; ; 635 words
; ...light years away. It's the Green Bank Telescope, and after 10 years of planning and construction, the Pocahontas County radio telescope is set to be unveiled Thursday. Sen...National Radio Astronomy Observatory telescope, will attend the ceremony, as will...
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Telescope can view solar systems Scientists hope new technology will answer 'the question
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 4/14/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...checkout period, the telescope will add to the work...the quartet of space telescopes to provide blanket...the last of the four telescopes should reveal objects...from the view of other telescopes. "The old, the cold...form planets. The telescope won't be able to...
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Telescope
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...important characteristic of telescopes as is commonly thought...magnifying power of a telescope is dependent on the...of large reflecting telescopes. Refracting telescopes A simple, uncorrected refracting telescope is shown in Figure...
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telescope
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...major types of optical telescopes, classified according...In the refracting telescope, or refractor, light...The third type of telescope, the catadioptric...Produced by Optical Telescopes The properties of the image produced by a telescope are similar, whether...
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Hubble Space Telescope
Book article from: Space Sciences
...The heart of the telescope is the primary mirror...turbulent atmosphere, the telescope can resolve astronomical...ground-based optical telescopes. Hubble can see objects...larger Earth-based telescopes. Hubble images have...used for pointing the telescope and for doing precision...
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Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
Book article from: World of Earth Science
Hubble Space Telescope (HST) The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a large Earth-orbiting astronomical telescope designed by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA). Hubble...
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infrared telescope
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
...telescope A telescope designed specifically...Infrared telescopes are similar...an optical telescope. However...large optical telescopes are designed...based infrared telescopes are the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility...
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