• In this manner, Therefore; consequently, (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result, noun_ an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation, Alternative spelling of thuris, The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers
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  • An arrangement of lenses or mirrors or both that gathers light, permitting direct observation or photographic recording of distant objects, A telescope with its tube completely filled with water. Such an instrument was used by Airy at Greenwich, about 1870, as part of a zenith-sector, in order to settle by observation certain questions relating to the aberration of light, a telescope which has a simple eyepiece so constructed or used as not to reverse the image formed by the object glass, and consequently exhibits objects inverted, which is not a hindrance in astronomical observations, verb _To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope, crush together or collapse, make smaller or shorter, transitive verb_ to shorten or abridge significantly, Recent To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope, intransitive verb_ To cause to slide inward or outward in overlapping sections, as the cylindrical sections of a small hand telescope do, To make more compact or concise; condense, To slide inward or outward in or as if in overlapping cylindrical sections, adjective_ Capable of being extended or compacted, like a telescope, by the sliding of joints or parts one within the other; telescopic
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  • Acting in consequence or in prosecution (of anything); hence, agreeable; conformable; following; according; -- with to or of, (followed by `to') in conformance to or agreement with, in conformance to, or in agreement with, adverb_ accordingly, consequently, Agreeably; conformably, noun_ A pursuivant
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  • As a result; therefore, (sentence connectors) because of the reason given, as a consequence
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