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- There is a constellation called Telescopium.
- Old-type telescopes were often made from tube sections that slid inside each other for easier stowage when not being used. As a result, anything that can lengthen and shorten in this way is said to be telescopic (adjective), and the process of shortening in this way is called telescoping (verb).
- In mathematics, the concept of a telescoping sum is derived from the sense above.
- When trains collide, the carriages can sometimes slide through eachother, rather like a telescope folding into a more compact form for ease of storage. Unlike a telescope which a full of air, a train may be full of passengers, who will suffer serious fatilities if telescoping occurs.
