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telescopical

telescopical is the alternative form of telescopic.

Meaning of telescopic

Adjective

telescopic (comparative more telescopic, superlative most telescopic)

  1. Pertaining to, or carried out by means of, a telescope.
    • Within a year or two of Galileo's telescopic discoveries no one disputed that the moon had mountains, Jupiter had moons, Venus had phases and the sun had spots […].2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin, published 2016, page 197
  2. Seen by means of a telescope; only visible through a telescope.
    • telescopic stars
  3. Capable of seeing distant objects; far-seeing.
  4. Able to be extended or retracted by the use of parts that slide over one another.
    • telescopic baton
  5. Referring to parts being extended or retracted along coinciding axes (with or without direct contact between the parts).

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Questions about telescopical

What is telescopical the alternative form of?
Telescopical is the alternative form of telescopic.

Words near telescopical in the dictionary

  1. telescopic
  2. telescopic sight
  3. telescopic sights
  4. telescopic star
  5. telescopic stars
  6. telescopical
  7. telescopically
  8. telescopies
  9. telescopiform
  10. telescoping
  11. telescopings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: telescopical (page history and authors); telescopic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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