telescopically

1. 1.

   in a telescopic manner

   “each of the four legs contains a simple screw jack with a thrust bearing that is operated telescopically inside of two tubes”

Questions about telescopically

What does telescopically mean?

telescopically means "in a telescopic manner".

How many syllables are in telescopically?

telescopically has 6 syllables and divides as te-le-sco-pi-cal-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is telescopically a common word?

telescopically is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.