VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / telephotography

Thesaurus: telephotography

transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

Definitions

  1. n. transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance
  2. n. photography using a telephoto lens
  3. 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.
  4. n. transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance n. photography using a telephoto lens