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Meaning of TELEPHOTOGRAPHY

Pronunciation:  `telufu'tâgrufee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  photography using a telephoto lens
  2. [n]  transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance
 
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 See Also: photography, picture taking, radiophotography, transmission, transmittal, transmitting

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Tel`e*pho*tog"ra*phy\, n.
1. The photography of distant objects in more enlarged form
   than is possible by the ordinary means, usually by a
   camera provided with a telephoto lens or mounted in place
   of the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a
   magnified image falls on the sensitive plate.
2. Art or process of electrically transmitting and
   reproducing photographic or other pictures at a distance
   by methods similar to those used in electric telegraphy.
3. Less properly, phototelegraphy.
 

 

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