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Example sentences for "telescopic"

Lexicographically close words:
teleported; teleporting; telescope; telescoped; telescopes; telescoping; telescreen; telestial; telet; telettes
  1. Langley, of Washington, discovered that a good deal of the perturbation of telescopic images arises from currents within the telescopic tube itself.

  2. This was for a long time a source of error and annoyance in telescopic images.

  3. Burnham found no peculiarity about its telescopic image.

  4. Quoted by Denning in Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings, p.

  5. On the first date the telescopic image of the planet was "rather tremulous," but in 1726 he noticed that the dark part of the circle seemed to belong to a smaller circle than the illuminated portion of the disc.

  6. This period is comparable with that of the telescopic binary system, [Greek: d] Equulei (period about 5.

  7. A complete telescopic comet; a perfect miniature of Halley's comet, only the tail is rather broader in proportion.

  8. The medium has thoughtfully brought one of these telescopic aluminium tubes in his trousers.

  9. Others had telescopic rods or "lazy tongs" hidden about them, and used these in the dark.

  10. She was a big woman, and she was not searched; and telescopic aluminium tubes take up little room.

  11. Barma Shah came down from his platform, bringing the rifle with the thing that looked like a telescopic sight above the barrel.

  12. Barma Shah was carrying a modern rifle with what appeared to be a large telescopic sight mounted on top of the barrel.

  13. This time," Barma Shah confided, "it was a telescopic sight.

  14. Only it wasn't a telescopic sight; it was a special flashlight powered by multiple batteries and focused down to almost a needle-beam.

  15. Now that corroboration of Adams's results had arrived, he felt it urgent to make a telescopic examination of that part of the heavens indicated by the theoretical findings of Adams and Leverrier.

  16. The zone of the telescopic planets, which are so inconsiderable in point of volume, viewed in the series of distances commencing from the sun, comes next before Jupiter, the greatest in size of all the planetary bodies.

  17. The faint and telescopic nebula, just reached by the glass in one age, is found in the next to be a congregation of innumerable stars.

  18. Inverted they show because this is the way the telescopic observer always sees the planet.

  19. With our modern telescopic means the dark patches are easily visible, the very smallest glass sufficing to disclose them.

  20. To this method of their manufacture the telescopic phenomena prove unamenable on five counts.

  21. But although it is the telescopic eye that has increased, not the distance that has diminished, the effect has been kin to being carried nearer the planet and so to a scanning of its disk with constantly increasing particularity.

  22. In orderly rotation the features make their appearance upon the body's righthand limb (in the telescopic image), travel across the central meridian of the disk and vanish over its lefthand border.

  23. The plates represent the surfaces of the two planets, that of the earth being shown upside down with south at the top so as to agree with the telescopic depiction of the topography of Mars.

  24. Familiarity with the subject, improved telescopic means, and long-continued training have all combined to increased efficiency in the procuring of data and to results which have been proportionate.

  25. Very little telescopic aid suffices to disclose the Martian polar phenomena in this their more salient characteristics and convince an observer of their likeness to those of the earth.

  26. I think your telescopic people are, on the whole, more satisfactory than your microscopic ones.

  27. The theory with such craft is that their sustaining planes, either by a telescopic system, or by some process of reefing, are built so that they can be expanded or contracted at the will of the pilot.

  28. But in their collapse, which is telescopic and to a certain extent gradual, a large part of the shock is absorbed.

  29. A telescopic comet was discovered by a lady of Nantucket, Mass.

  30. A telescopic comet was discovered at the Cambridge university at 7 P.

  31. Among the telescopic stars are many of a deep blood-red tint, variable stars being numerous among them.

  32. Astronomers carry the telescopic magnitudes much farther, till a magnitude beyond the twentieth is reached, preserving in every case the ratio of two and one-half for each magnitude in relation to that numerically next to it.

  33. Around the time of quarter moon, or a little past it, is one of the best times for telescopic views of the moon, because the huge craters, Tycho and Copernicus, are then in fine illumination.

  34. It is a telescopic comet with a very short tail, its time of revolution is about three and a half years, and it exhibits a remarkable contraction of volume on approach to the sun.

  35. With no telescopic power at our command could we possibly see anything on the moon of the size of the largest buildings or other works of human intelligence; so that we seem forever barred from detecting anything of the sort on Mars.

  36. The latter was fully observed by Schmidt of Athens and became a faint telescopic star within a few weeks.

  37. Epsilon Lyrae is one, a double-double, or four stars as seen with slender telescopic power, and six or seven stars with larger instruments.

  38. He also took up the controversy against Hooke as to the superiority of telescopic over plain sights to quadrants, Hooke contending in favor of the plain.

  39. The Skylark fell in behind the submersible craft, close enough to keep it plainly visible in the telescopic visiplate.

  40. At the previous cast of the detector it had still been visible as a barely-perceptible point of light in the highest telescopic power of the visiplate.

  41. He swung number six, the telescopic visiplate, into connection.

  42. Each is mounted with a telescopic sight, and from beneath the barrel of each much of the wood of the casing has been cut away.

  43. The men do their work by day, as the telescopic sight is not good for shooting in a poor light.

  44. And for just a moment the German's face and the crossed hairs of his telescopic sight coincided, and coincided steadily.

  45. A pair of dirty earth-stained hands gently laid down a rifle on the fire-step--a rifle with a telescopic sight.

  46. With his eye glued to his telescopic sight and his finger on the trigger of his rifle, he seemed hardly to be breathing.

  47. It is still visible with telescopic power, shining as a star of the eleventh magnitude, that is five magnitudes below the faintest star discernible with the unaided eye.

  48. The effect of the transfusion of light through a telescopic image may be easily tried by any one who cares to make the experiment.

  49. But the time had arrived when the great discovery was to be made, by which at length the moon could be brought near enough, by telescopic power, for living creatures on her surface to be seen if any exist.

  50. Spectroscopic analysis and exact telescopic scrutiny will not permit some speculations to be entertained which formerly met with favour.

  51. The photo-electric telescopic eye watched the planet constantly, keeping the ship surely and accurately on the course that would get them to the distant planet in the shortest possible time.

  52. We know a fair bit about Mars from telescopic observation, while Venus, wrapped in perpetual cloud, is a mystery.

  53. It is trained, or pointed in a horizontal plane, by turning the turret in which it stands but the correct elevation is gained by the use of telescopic sights.

  54. More elaborate devices are used, however, such as a high telescopic tower similar to the tall fire-escape ladders of the fire-brigades.

  55. But now the telescopic sight at a hundred yards would correct that?

  56. It is possible, is it not, to so adjust the telescopic sight to compensate for that change in the target?

  57. Using that telescopic lens, how would you aim that rifle to achieve that distinction?

  58. In your opinion, what effect does the introduction of a rest and telescopic sight have on probable aiming error?

  59. Each fired two series of three rounds, using the telescopic sight.

  60. Can you describe to us the telescopic sight on the rifle in terms of---- Mr. McCLOY.

  61. But the marksmanship is accomplished by the telescopic sight.

  62. We did adjust the telescopic sight by the addition of two shims, one which tended to adjust the azimuth, and one which adjusted an elevation.

  63. It is a four-power telescopic sight employing crosshairs in it as a sighting device, in the interior of the scope.

  64. It is a very inexpensive Japanese telescopic sight.

  65. There have been experiments made using telescopic sights, but these are of limited interest militarily.

  66. Have you prepared a diagram of the telescopic sight?

  67. Then we have already passed the zone of the telescopic planets, have we not?

  68. Even here, where he is in his most amiable mood, you see at what a telescopic distance he stands from mother Earth and simple human joys—“Nature’s circle rolls beneath.

  69. This is the period for obtaining fine telescopic views of Venus, when she is seen with spots on her disk.

  70. The whole number of magnitudes recorded are sixteen, of which the first six only are visible to the naked eye; the rest are telescopic stars.

  71. In September, 1832, Sir John Herschel, when observing Biela's comet, saw that body pass directly between his eye and a small cluster of minute telescopic stars of the sixteenth or seventeenth magnitude.


  72. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "telescopic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    farseeing; farsighted; microscopic; stereoscopic