Telescoped

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  telescoped
       adj : 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: {shortened}]