different between adjustable vs telescopic

English

Etymology

adjust +? -able

Adjective

adjustable (comparative more adjustable, superlative most adjustable)

1. capable of being adjusted

Translations

Noun

adjustable (plural adjustables)

1. Anything that can be adjusted.
   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

     "He came in. He had a gun. He was crazy. You can see he was crazy; look what he did to Ricky. He thought Ricky was me. He wanted to steal my adjustables. Look."
     Sonny smiled and tilted the steel case so Henry could look at the jumble of rusty ironmongery inside.

English

Etymology

From tele- +? -scopic, after telescope.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t?l??sk?p?k/
• Rhymes: -?p?k

Adjective

telescopic (comparative more telescopic, superlative most telescopic)

1. Pertaining to, or carried out by means of, a telescope. [from 17th c.]
   • 2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin 2016, p. 197:

     Within a year or two of Galileo's telescopic discoveries no one disputed that the moon had mountains, Jupiter had moons, Venus had phases and the sun had spots […].

2. (chiefly astronomy) Seen by means of a telescope; only visible through a telescope. [from 17th c.]

   telescopic stars

3. Capable of seeing distant objects; far-seeing. [from 18th c.]
4. Able to be extended or retracted by the use of parts that slide over one another. [from 19th c.]

5. Referring to parts being extended or retracted along coinciding axes (with or without direct contact between the parts). [from 20th c.]

Derived terms

Related terms

• telescope
• microscopic
• macroscopic

Translations

See also

• naked-eye

Romanian

Etymology

From French télescopique

Adjective

telescopic m or n (feminine singular telescopic?, masculine plural telescopici, feminine and neuter plural telescopice)

1. telescopic

Declension