Hypertext Webster Gateway: "telescoped"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Telescope \Tel"e*scope\, a. [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. [Recent]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
telescoped
adj : 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: {shortened}]
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