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An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.

An instrument for indicating the level of water in a distant tank or reservior.

Any apparatus for making distant objects visible by the aid of electric transmission.

, as by electricity or by compressed air; esp., an apparatus recording conditions at many distant stations at a central office. -- Tel`e*me`te*or*o*graph"ic (#), a.

A combination of the camera lucida and telescope for drawing and measuring distant objects. -- Tel`e*me*trog"ra*phy (#), n. -- Tel`e*met`ro*graph"ic (#), a.

lens consisting of a combination of lenses specially designed to give a large image of a distant object in a camera of relatively short focal length.

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.

An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.

A spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or stars. Lockyer.

A stereoscope adapted to view distant natural objects or landscapes; a telescopic stereoscope.

A record of fluctuations of temperature made automatically at a distant station.

An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.

An instrument for producing music (Tel*har"mo*ny []), at a distant point or points by means of alternating currents of electricity controlled by an operator who plays on a keyboard. The music is produced by a receiving instrument similar or analogous to the telephone, but not held to the ear. The pitch corresponds with…

An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle. Hutton.

g; a papitation: The IMPATIENT throbs and longings of a soul That pants and reaches after distant good. Addison.

e sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like. The distant forge's swinging thump profound. Wordsworth. With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down, one by one. Coleridge.

To strike with something flat or heavy; to bang, or thrash: to thump. "A distant thwacking sound." W. Irving.

A tinkle, or succession of tinkles. Drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Gray.

p at a distance, or made self-propelling, and otherwise automatic in its action against a distant ship.

To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.