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Plural of telescope

regular plural

The plural of telescope is telescopes.

Forms of telescope

Singulartelescope /ˈtɛl.ɪ.skəʊp/
Pluraltelescopes
Countablecountable

Telescopes in a sentence

  • New space telescopes may accelerate the search for other earths that may be out there.From the entry earth
  • For days telescopes surveyed the skies to recover the small asteroid.From the entry recover
  • Powerful telescopes look far back into the distant reaches of the Universe.From the entry universe
  • The adaptive optical systems in modern astronomical telescopes compensate for atmospheric distortion by using deformable mirrors.From the entry deformable
  • Optical telescopes don't work when it is cloudy.From the entry optical

Meaning of telescope

  1. noun A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
  2. noun Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
  3. noun A retractable tubular support for lights.

Full definition of telescope

Questions about the plural of telescope

What is the plural of telescope?
The plural of telescope is telescopes.
Is telescope countable?
Telescope is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: telescope (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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