Definition of Telescoping

1. Verb. (present participle of telescope) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Telescoping

1. telescope [v] - See also: telescope

Lexicographical Neighbors of Telescoping

telesatellites
telescope
telescope sight
telescoped
telescopefish
telescopefishes
telescopes
telescopic
telescopic denture
telescopic sight
telescopic spectacles
telescopic star
telescopical
telescopically
telescopies
telescoping
telescopist
telescopists
telescopy
telescreen
telescreens
teleseismic
teleseismological
teleseismology
teleseller
telesellers
teleselling
teleseme
telesemes
teleseminar

Literary usage of Telescoping

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
""A. Sometimes telescoping and sometimes the blank not being cut smooth. "Q. 192. In what way did you get out the telescoping blanks when the machine was ..."

2. Notes on Railroad Accidents by Charles Francis Adams (1879)
"CHAPTER V. Telescoping AND THE MILLER PLATFORM. THE period of exemption from wholesale railroad slaughters referred to in a previous chapter and which ..."

3. Stresses in Wire-wrapped Guns and in Gun Carriages: By Lieutenant Colonel by Colden L'Hommedieu Ruggles (1916)
"Design of Non-Telescoping Springs Assembled One Within the Other. — If it is desired to decrease the assembled height somewhat without increasing the outer ..."

4. How to Conduct Victimization Surveys: A Workbookby Lanny Piper, Robert Lucas, Jack Shirey, William Rohe by Lanny Piper, Robert Lucas, Jack Shirey, William Rohe (1997)
"Telescoping refers to the tendency of respondents to incorrectly place past ... Efforts to control telescoping led to the identification of bounding as a ..."

5. A Practical Treatise on Artificial Crown-, Bridge-, and Porcelain-work by George Evans (1920)
"... SPLIT POST— SPLIT-POST SWAGING DEVICE—SPLIT-POST BURNISHER—TELESCOPE CROWNS—THE OUTER OR Telescoping CAP—CONTOUR— THE CUSP-CAP—TELESCOPE CROWN WITH TUBE ..."

6. Special Report by the Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners to the by Board of Railroad Commissioners, Massachusetts (1887)
"... stopped, and caused that telescoping ; and those two cars that went down the bank, when those other cars were derailed and telescoped, those two cars ..."

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