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telescoped — adjective 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 • Similar to … Useful english dictionary
Telescoped — 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
telescoped — tel·e·scope || telɪskəʊp n. optical device for making distant objects appear nearer and larger v. shorten, become shorter … English contemporary dictionary
Cased Telescoped Armament System — Un Cased Telescoped Armament System (CTAS) est un type d obus de nouvelle génération, où l ogive est enfermée dans la cartouche de poudre, au lieu d être placée au sommet de celle ci. Cette disposition donne une forme cylindrique à l obus, et… … Wikipédia en Français
Lightweight Small Arms Technologies — The Lightweight Small Arms Technologies (LSAT) program is funded by the Joint Service Small Arms Program, with the goal of significantly reducing the weight of small arms and their ammunition. [http://www.nrapublications.org/TAR/LSAT.asp] ]… … Wikipedia
CTAS — Cased Telescoped Armament System Un Cased Telescoped Armament System (CTAS) est un type d obus de nouvelle génération, ou l ogive est enfermée dans la cartouche de poudre, au lieu d être placée au sommet de celle ci. Cette disposition donne une… … Wikipédia en Français
telescope — tel|e|scope1 [ˈtelıskəup US skoup] n [Date: 1600 1700; : Modern Latin; Origin: telescopium, from Greek teleskopos seeing a long way , from tele ( TELE ) + skopos watcher ] a piece of equipment shaped like a tube, used for making distant objects… … Dictionary of contemporary English
shortened — adjective 1. cut short (Freq. 1) a sawed off shotgun a sawed off broomstick the shortened rope was easier to use • Syn: ↑sawed off, ↑sawn off • Similar to: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
tel|e|scope — «TEHL uh skohp», noun, verb, scoped, scop|ing. adjective. –n. an instrument for making distant objects appear nearer and larger. It consists of an arrangement of lenses, and sometimes mirrors, in one or more tubes. In a refracting telescope the… … Useful english dictionary
USS Scorpion (SSN-589) — was a Skipjack class nuclear submarine of the United States Navy, and the sixth ship of the U.S. Navy to carry that name. Scorpion was declared lost on June 5, 1968,cite web |date=2007 |url = http://www.submarinehistory.com/Scorpion.html|title =… … Wikipedia
