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How to use telescopic in a sentence

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The other measuring equipment, apart from the 20-metre tape, we have vernier callipers, feeler strips and telescopic measures.
While Mars and the Moon were objects of much attention by early telescopic observation, the surface of Venus remained a mystery.
As with Galileo's first telescopic observations, these explorations will stimulate discussion on the origins of the newly revealed landscapes.
She said that telescopic observations reported in 1977 reported the detection of methane and ethane on Neptune but not Uranus.
His astronomy brought back to the fore, he went on to make the earliest telescopic observations in England.
Centuries of telescopic observations revealed Mars to have a dynamic surface and atmosphere.
By 1613 Galileo believed that his telescopic observations of the moons of Jupiter proved that the Earth and planets revolved round the Sun.
Unbeknown to Garay, his passenger was armed with a rifle with a telescopic lens.
These and a whole list of other questions far longer than a chameleon's telescopic tongue, still need to be answered.
At the end of the percussion era, telescopic sights were not unknown on muzzleloading sporting rifles.
But they are assisted by their coach who looks through a telescopic lens and calibrates the rifle's sights, also factoring in weather conditions.
Special telescopic lens system can be tried from low vision trial sets, which are now available to help in distance and near vision.
Using the telescopic lens I analysed the terrain, looked for nests but found none.
As well as being a pioneer in the field of telescopic lenses, Thomas Cooke invented a steam carriage that could travel at 15 mph.
The main camera is mounted on the telescopic mast at the front of the trailer.
One of his favorite tricks is to call the people he's spying on and describe what he is observing through his telescopic lens.
The device has a telescopic arm which hooks into the pallet and the forklift to carry pallets to the end of the lorry.
This was done first through telescopic measurements and early spacecraft fly-bys.
Returns from his hunting enabled him to fit a suppressor and a telescopic sight to his Vickers rifle.
The telescopic boom section is the one nearest the truck, and a folding section of slick line bridges the extending portion.
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Was nearly half the day in adjusting the line of collimation in the telescopic sights of my theodolite.
These were to extend the determinations of distance to the telescopic stars.
We must remember that the minuter telescopic stars preponderate enormously in and near the Milky Way.
After a while, the filters went off and the telescopic screen went on again.
The telescopic sight picked out faces from the waiting crowd with a crystal clarity.
There is also a telescopic blow-off and, which automatically comes into play if the gasholder bell rises above a certain height.
With respect to rapid-fire shooting, how does the telescopic sight on a four-power scope work out?
We had met in times before the advent of the telescopic lens, and he used a box camera, tuned to a fiftieth of a second.
He examined a Winchester repeating rifle with a telescopic sight, then put it back and strapped on a.22 revolver.
How are these four guns to conceal themselves on perfectly bare ground from the telescopic sight of wild-geese?
I here found my telescopic sight very useful for observing every movement while personally laying guns.
He swung number six, the telescopic visiplate, into connection.
Both guards must have had their telescopic sights zeroed on the spot.
Not very much can be said for Mercury as a telescopic object.
Among the items seized were a BB gun, a machete, a telescopic baton, a hunting knife, Class A and B drugs and a substantial amount of cash.
But a yet more depressing feature in the grey facade is its telescopic length and changeless continuity.
Raffles had brought it with him, round his waist, and he carried the telescopic stick for fixing it in place.
Was there any ingenious plot, any hide-and-seek course of action, which might be detected by a careful telescopic watch?
A MULTI-MILLION pound telescopic gangway has been delivered by two North East firms working in partnership.
Then one evening he trained his sound telescope on a house half a mile away, and he looked through the telescopic sight attached to the probe.
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