Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The art or study of making and operating telescopes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of constructing or of using the telescope.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art or practice of using or making telescopes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
manufacture anduse oftelescopes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the art of making and using telescopes
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Examples
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I am too far for touch, too near for Proustian telescopy.
Commonplace 2010
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I am too far for touch, too near for Proustian telescopy.
Commonplace: How am I to lose myself once again among the stones of Aran? 2009
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I am too far for touch, too near for Proustian telescopy.
A Different Stripe: 2009
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But in the 1970s, the double whammy of radio telescopy and a Mariner 10 flyby revealed a wealth of details needing names.
Archive 2008-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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But in the 1970s, the double whammy of radio telescopy and a Mariner 10 flyby revealed a wealth of details needing names.
In the Lap of the Gods Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Nor will the reader without reflection readily realize the enormous stride which was made in telescopy when the makers advanced from the twenty-seven-inch to the thirty-six-inch objective.
Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World Various 1870
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NizßmÝ tells that Alexander invented the steel mirror, by which he means, of course, that improved reflectors were used for telescopy in the days of Archimedes, but not early enough to have assisted JßmshÝd, who belongs to the fabulous and unchronicled age.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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There are two projects currently in the works that will undoubtedly revolutionize space telescopy and yield extraordinary results once put into use: The James Webb Space Telescope and the Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope.
Ethical Technology IEET 2010
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There are two projects currently in the works that will undoubtedly revolutionize space telescopy and yield extraordinary results once put into use: The James Webb Space Telescope and the Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope.
Ethical Technology IEET 2010
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Despite their claims to hoodrich and the sound of coin on the beats, Pusha T and Malice painted a darker, raggedier telescopy of street-life, their lip-curled irony cutting devastatingly: on "Comedy Central", after describing shooting someone as "cock the gauge / Polkadot your braids," Malice raps, "I hate to think the dope game is my callin / 'Cause it got us singing lullabies to our fallen."
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