TELESCOPIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telescopic mean? 

• TELESCOPIC (adjective)
  The adjective TELESCOPIC has 3 senses:

1. visible only with a telescope

2. capable of discerning distant objects

3. having parts that slide one within another

  Familiarity information: TELESCOPIC used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELESCOPIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Visible only with a telescope

Context example:

a bright star with a telescopic companion

Similar:

seeable; visible (capable of being seen; or open to easy view)

Derivation:

telescope (a magnifier of images of distant objects)

telescopy (the art of making and using telescopes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Capable of discerning distant objects

Context example:

telescopic vision

Similar:

farsighted; presbyopic (able to see distant objects clearly)

Derivation:

telescope (a magnifier of images of distant objects)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Having parts that slide one within another

Context example:

a telescopic drinking cup

Similar:

collapsable; collapsible (capable of collapsing or being collapsed)

 Context examples 

Organic compounds have been found in certain meteorites as well as inferred from telescopic observations of several asteroids.

(Dawn Discovers Evidence for Organic Material on Ceres, NASA)

In the past, telescopic observations and orbiting spacecraft have found glacier-like ice deposits on Mercury, but as of yet not on the Moon.

(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)

Although the spacecraft will be much farther from the planet than Voyager 2's closest approach, New Horizons' telescopic camera was able to obtain several long-distance approach shots of Neptune on July 10.

(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)

Additionally, data obtained from the OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite (OCAMS) corroborate ground-based telescopic observations of Bennu and confirm the original model.

(NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Discovers Water on Asteroid, NASA)

Now, here's a useful tool—.470, telescopic sight, double ejector, point-blank up to three-fifty.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In some of the years when no orbiter was observing Mars up close, Mars was poorly positioned for Earth-based telescopic detection of dust storms during the Martian season when global storms are most likely.

(Study Predicts Next Global Dust Storm on Mars, NASA)