(n.) A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies.
(n.) A building fitted with instruments for making systematic observations of any particular class or series of natural phenomena.
(n.) A place, as an elevated chamber, from which a view may be observed or commanded.
(n.) A lookout on a flank of a battery whence an officer can note the range and effect of the fire.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Syrian government also hit rebel-held areas with air strikes on Saturday, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
(2) As any archaeologist will tell you, trying to understand what was going through the minds of the people who built these prehistoric monuments is a difficult task,” said Dr Marek Kukula, public astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
(3) Another 57 fighters with the al-Nusra Front, which has links to al-Qaida, were killed in air strikes on the northern Syrian province of Aleppo and Idlib, the Observatory said.
(4) The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors Syria’s civil war, claimed that US air strikes also hit a headquarters for a Nusra-aligned militant group, Ahrar al-Sham.
(5) The isolated site is home to several other facilities, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope , and has excellent atmospheric conditions for stargazing.
(6) On Saturday, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed militants had seized part of a northern district of the town, after a day of heavy clashes.
(7) Willie Soon is a Smithsonian staff researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a collaboration of the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,” a Harvard spokesman, Jeff Neal, said.
(8) Four explosions hit the southern Damascus district of Sayeda Zeinab, where a revered Shia shrine is located, leaving 62 dead and 180 injured, according to the Observatory.
(9) Just a short stroll from the start of this walk, the Norman Lockyer Observatory still holds two of his telescopes.
(10) Over a crest in the road was the cause of the electronic silence: the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), an array of radio telescopes set against the indigo vastness of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
(11) Scott Greer is associate professor of health management and policy at the University of Michigan , research associate of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and senior visiting fellow of LSE Health This article is published by Guardian Professional.
(12) Hundreds of civilians have left,” said the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdurrahman.
(13) It also ignores evidence from Oxford's Migration Observatory , which tracks the employment status of migrants.
(14) Perched some 11,000ft up a volcano, the Mauna Loa observatory has been measuring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere since 1958.
(15) 11.22am BST The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that western Ghouta was also targeted by regime forces today.
(16) What we showed is that even under natural conditions, it can become much drier than predicted by any of our models,” said Yael Kiro , a geochemist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the US.
(17) Syrian ceasefire deal - the Guardian briefing Read more On Tuesday the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group that monitors the conflict, updated its tally of fatalities.
(18) Six children were among the dead, while dozens were wounded, the Observatory added.
(19) Working in a location to the southeast of Kathmandu, Paul Tapponnier, an earth scientist at the Earth Observatory of Singapore , and his team dug trenches across the fault and used charcoal to date when it had moved.
(20) The group’s members and their families have begun leaving the city and relocating to Mosul, Iraq, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Telescope
Definition:
(n.) An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.
(a.) 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.
(v. t.) To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
(2) But towards the end of the decade, Nasa expects to launch the James Webb Space Telescope , which has been designed to look further back into the history of the universe.
(3) However, similarly tested Keplerian telescopes exhibited significantly higher MTF's with vertical gratings.
(4) When the unmagnified peripheral visual field was unobstructed during adaptation, VOR gain increases were significantly less than when the unmagnified peripheral visual field was occluded, and were similar to those observed during adaptation without the wearing of telescopic spectacles at all.
(5) "When you live over here you see the situation from the other end of the telescope and you see things that English people simply don't."
(6) The periodontal and prosthetic treatment were carried out and 16 Konus telescope dentures were applied for 11 patients.
(7) An original apparatus and a new kind of mechanical suture were used in experiment and in clinic for the formation of telescopic anastomosis.
(8) "The E-ELT will have almost as much light collecting area as all the telescopes ever built, put together," said Professor Niranjan Thatte of Oxford University.
(9) 1) In polishing the axial surface of the inner crown of the conic telescope crown system, the milling machine with a polishing disk facilitated specular finishing without causing undercutting in the region from the occlusal surface to the dental cervix.
(10) The isolated site is home to several other facilities, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope , and has excellent atmospheric conditions for stargazing.
(11) "When I was a boy, I was doing both music and science: I belonged to an astronomy club, we built telescopes, we looked at the stars.
(12) Direct blocking by crown blocks, bridge prostheses, connecting bars and telescopes should include, as far as possible, all teeth.
(13) The bronchial anastomosis was made by the telescoping technique.
(14) Patient acceptance of the telescopic systems was 62%, and of the microscopic systems, 96%.
(15) Just a short stroll from the start of this walk, the Norman Lockyer Observatory still holds two of his telescopes.
(16) Telescopic spectacles are used as aids for the visually impaired in order to increase effective visual acuity.
(17) A review of 385 proximal fractures of the femur treated with a telescopic screw system revealed that in nine cases the device had cut out of the head of the femur necessitating its removal.
(18) The 3.5, 4.0, and 5.0 30-cm Storz bronchoscopes with a 3.95-mm (outside diameter) telescope lens were used in 10 mongrel dogs weighing between 8 and 15 kg.
(19) The following therapeutic proposal was adapted: On the maxilla, a three-step procedure: first step: building of metal copings on 13, 16 and 26 and metal-ceramic crowns on 11 and 21, second step: building of telescop crowns on 16 and 26 and clasps on 13, 11 and 21, third step: casting of the removable partial denture framework and soldering to the telescop crowns and clasps.
(20) Astronomer Jose Madiedo, who leads the Midas project at the University of Huelva, saw footage of the strike soon after the telescopes' software had processed the impact on 11 September 2013.