Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A telephoto.
- noun A photograph transmitted and reproduced by telephotography.
- transitive verb To photograph with a telephoto lens.
- transitive verb To transmit by telephotography.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A photograph of a distant object taken with a telephotographic camera.
- noun A picture or image produced by a telephote.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a photograph transmitted and reproduced by telephotography.
- noun a photograph made with a telephoto lens.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
photograph taken with atelephoto lens . - noun dated A
photograph transmitted bywire .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a photograph made with a telephoto lens
- noun a photograph transmitted and reproduced over a distance
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ten minutes later he was at the police station, sending a motor-cyclist to Épernay with instructions to transmit the finger-prints to Paris by the Belin telephotograph.
Maigret meets a Milord Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1931
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Then suddenly, in the half-century between 1880 and 1930, it ousted the steam-engine and took over traction, it ousted every other form of household heating, abolished distance with the perfected wireless telephone and the telephotograph ....
The World Set Free Herbert George 1914
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The telephotograph of the carter’s finger-prints ought to have reached the Préfecture nearly two hours before.
Maigret meets a Milord Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1931
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