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noun ADJ. powerful | 26-metre, 60-millimetre, etc. | astronomical, optical, radio, space images from the Hubble space telescope VERB + TELESCOPE use | look at sth with/without, see sth with/without stars that cannot be seen without a telescope | look (at sth) through, view sth through | set up She set up her telescope on the balcony. | build building the largest telescope in the world PREP. through a/the ~ PHRASES the wrong end of a telescope He felt as if he were seeing things through the wrong end of a telescope.
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