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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another;
- Example: "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars"
- Example: "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream"
[syn: telescoped, shortened]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Telescope \Tel"e*scope\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Telescoped; p. pr. & vb. n. Telescoping.] To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another; to become compressed in the manner of a telescope, due to a collision or other force. [Recent] [1913 Webster +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

telescoped adj 1: shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another; "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars"; "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream" [syn: telescoped, shortened]