telescoped

2 definitions found

telescoped - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Telescope \Tel"e*scope\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Telescoped; p.
     pr. & vb. n. Telescoping.]
     To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the
     sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into
     collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs
     into another; to become compressed in the manner of a
     telescope, due to a collision or other force. [Recent]
     [1913 Webster +PJC]

telescoped - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  telescoped
      adj 1: shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one
             within another or are crushed one into another; "a
             miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars";
             "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream" [syn:
             telescoped, shortened]