REFRACTING TELESCOPE

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Meaning:

Optical telescope that has a large convex lens that produces an image that is viewed through the eyepiece

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Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("refracting telescope" is a kind of...):

optical telescope (an astronomical telescope designed to collect and record light from cosmic sources)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "refracting telescope"):

field glass; glass; spyglass (a small refracting telescope)

Galilean telescope (a type of refracting telescope that is no longer used in astronomy)