OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 8238

telescope

/ˈtɛl.ɪ.skəʊp/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
catalejo • telescopio
A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
It is scarcely possible to avoid comparing the eye to a telescope.
It needs a scientific telescope, it needs to be reinterpreted and artificially brought near us, before we can so much as know that it was a Sun.
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