TELESCOPEとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From tele- +‎ -scope. From Latin tēlescopium, from Ancient Greek τηλεσκόπος (tēleskópos, “far-seeing”), from τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “I look at”).

Coined in 1611 by the Greek mathematician Giovanni Demisiani for one of Galileo Galilei's instruments presented at a banquet at the Accademia dei Lincei. Doublet of Telescopium.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈtɛl.ɪ.skəʊp/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈtɛl.əˌskoʊp/
• ハイフネーション: tele‧scope

名詞

telescope (plural telescopes)

1. A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
   • 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Symbols”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 155:

     It needs a scientific telescope, it needs to be reinterpreted and artificially brought near us, before we can so much as know that it was a Sun.

   • 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Difficulties on Theory”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 188:

     It is scarcely possible to avoid comparing the eye to a telescope.

   • 1880 [1610 March 13], Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, “The Astronomical Messenger”, in Edward Stafford Carlos, transl., The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original Account of Galileo's Astronomical Discoveries: A Translation with Introduction and Notes, London: Rivingtons, translation of Sidereus Nuncius: […] , →OCLC, page 10:

     About ten months ago a report reached my ears that a Dutchman had constructed a telescope, by the aid of which visible objects, although at a great distance from the eye of the observer, were seen distinctly as if near; […]

   • 2001 November, Stephen Hawking, “A Brief History of Relativity”, in The Universe in a Nutshell, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 21:

     This was one of the great missed opportunities of theoretical physics. If Einstein had stuck with his original equations, he could have predicted that the universe must be either expanding or contracting. As it was, the possibility of a time-dependent universe wasn't taken seriously until observations in the 1920s by the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson.

   • 2021 December 24, Don Lincoln, “The telescope that will replace Hubble will launch on Christmas. Here’s why it matters”, in CNN‎:

     The 1.2-meter-diameter (4-foot-diameter) telescope has set off on a monthlong journey to its orbital destination of the sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, which is nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away from Earth and also home to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Euclid will keep pace with Earth as our planet orbits the sun.

2. Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
3. (television) A retractable tubular support for lights.
   • 1963, Television Engineering: Report, page 245:

     In some studios the telescopes are fixed to the lighting grid […]

4. A kind of goldfish with protruding eyes, first bred in China.
   • 1928, Robert V. Sawyer, ‎Edwin H. Perkins, Water Gardens and Goldfish (page 92)

     Chinese Telescopes are sold by some dealers for young Japanese Fringetails. For this reason it is well to select a reliable dealer when purchasing choice stock.

下位語

派生語

熟語s

• through the wrong end of the telescope

動詞

telescope (third-person singular simple present telescopes, present participle telescoping, simple past and past participle telescoped)

1. (ambitransitive) To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
   • 1988, Barry B[rookes] Longyear, Naked Came the Robot, New York, N.Y.: Popular Library, →ISBN, page 155:

     Hugo rose to his full height, which was triple that of Grunt Buggely’s, even without his neck telescoped.

2. (ambitransitive) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
3. (intransitive) To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
4. (ambitransitive, mathematics, of a series) To collapse, via cancellation.

参考

• binoculars
• microscope

参照

• “telescope”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.