English-Dutch translations for telescope

• telescoop
  Heeft het gesprekken gevoerd met ook maar één van de lidstaten die moesten beslissen over de locatie van de telescoop? Did it hold any meetings with any of those Member States responsible for deciding on the location of the telescope?
  Zoals u beter weet dan ik bestudeerde de grote Italiaanse wetenschapper Galileo Galilei de hemel vanaf de aarde, met zijn telescoop. As you know better than me, Galileo Galilei, the great Italian scientist, used to study the sky with his telescope from the earth.
• kijker

Definition of telescope

• A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy
• To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope
• To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another

Related words

• hypertelescope
• radio telescope
• space telescope
• Schmidt telescope
• X-ray telescope
• refracting telescope
• reflecting telescope
• Dobsonian telescope
• Newtonian telescope