TELESCOPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telescoped mean? 

• TELESCOPED (adjective)
  The adjective TELESCOPED has 1 sense:

1. shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another

  Familiarity information: TELESCOPED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELESCOPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another

Synonyms:

shortened; telescoped

Context example:

years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream

Similar:

short ((primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length)

 Context examples 

I have crammed it and telescoped it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With the swiftness and wide-reaching of multitudinous thought Charles Butler's whole life was telescoped upon his vision.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)