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[ verb ] crush together or collapse
Examples "In the accident, the cars telescoped" "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack" Used in print (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)The accumulation of such devices , however , soon had the effect of telescoping , even while separating , surface and depth . Related terms |
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[ verb ] make smaller or shorter
Examples "the novel was telescoped into a short play" Related terms |
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[ noun ] a magnifier of images of distant objects
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