TELEPHOTOGRAPHY

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.
n.

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.
n.

Less properly, phototelegraphy.