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telescope
A telescope is a device used to observe distant objects by their emission, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic radiation. Originally meaning only an optical instrument using lenses, curved mirrors, or a combination of both to observe ...
is an instrument designed for the observation of remote objects.
Telescope(s) also may refer to:
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The Telescopes
The Telescopes are an English noise, space rock, dream pop and psychedelic band, formed in 1987 by Stephen Lawrie, David Fitzgerald and Joanna Doran that drew influence from artists such as Suicide, The Velvet Underground, Trite and The 13th ...
, a British psychedelic band
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''Telescope'' (album), by Circle, 2007
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''The Telescope'' (album), by Her Space Holiday, 2006
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''Telescopes'' (EP), by Waking Ashland, 2006
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"Telescope" (song), by Hayden Panettiere, 2012
* "Telescope", a song by Cheryl Cole from ''
A Million Lights
''A Million Lights'' is the third studio album by English singer Cheryl, released on 15 June 2012 through Fascination Records. Following her divorce from Ashley Cole, this is Cheryl's first album to be released under the mononym Cheryl, droppin ...
'', 2012
* "Telescopes", a song by Reks from ''
Grey Hairs
Grey Hairs is the third studio album by American rapper Reks
Corey Isiah Christie (born August 24, 1977), better known as Reks (styled in all caps as REKS), is an American rapper. Reks emerged from Lawrence, Massachusetts' underground rap s ...
'', 2008
Other media
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''Telescope'' (TV series), a 1963–1973 Canadian documentary program
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"The Telescope" (''BoJack Horseman''), a 2014 television episode
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''The Telescope'' (magazine), an American monthly for amateur astronomers 1931–1941
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''The Telescope'' (Magritte), a 1963 painting by René Magritte
* Telescope, a type of
dolly zoom film/video shot
* ''The Telescope'', a 1957 play by
R. C. Sherriff
Robert Cedric Sherriff, FSA, FRSL (6 June 1896 – 13 November 1975) was an English writer best known for his play '' Journey's End'', which was based on his experiences as an army officer in the First World War. He wrote several plays, many nov ...
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Telescope (horse)
Telescope (foaled 25 January 2010) is an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. He won one minor race as a two-year-old but was highly regarded by his connections and was considered a leading contender for the following year's Epso ...
(foaled 2010), an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse
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Telescopium
Telescopium is a minor constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere, one of twelve named in the 18th century by French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille and one of several depicting scientific instruments. Its name is a Latinized for ...
, "The Telescope", a constellation
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Telescopic cylinder
Telescopic cylinders are a special design of a hydraulic cylinder or pneumatic cylinder as well as pulley system which provide an exceptionally long output travel from a very compact retracted length. Typically the collapsed length of a telescopic ...
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Telescoping (mechanics)
Telescoping in mechanics describes the movement of one part sliding out from another, lengthening an object (such as a telescope or the lift arm of an aerial work platform) from its rest state. In modern equipment this can be achieved by a hydra ...
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Telescoping (rail cars)
In a railway accident, telescoping occurs when the underframe of one vehicle overrides that of another, and smashes through the second vehicle's body. The term is derived from the resulting appearance of the two vehicle bodies: the body of on ...
, collision event where a car is displaced into interior of another
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Telescoping effect
In cognitive psychology, the telescoping effect (or telescoping bias) refers to the temporal displacement of an event whereby people perceive recent events as being more remote than they are and distant events as being more recent than they are. Th ...
, in which past events are recalled as having occurred more recently
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Telescoping series
In mathematics, a telescoping series is a series whose general term t_n can be written as t_n=a_n-a_, i.e. the difference of two consecutive terms of a sequence (a_n).
As a consequence the partial sums only consists of two terms of (a_n) after ca ...
, in mathematics
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Telescoping generations
Telescoping generations can occur in parthenogenetic species, such as aphids or other life forms that have the ability to reproduce without ovum fertilization. This occurrence is characterized by a viviparous female having a daughter growing inside ...
, in biology
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