telephoto
adjective
noting or pertaining to telephotography.
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telephoto
1 American
[tel-uh-foh-toh]
/ ˈtɛl əˌfoʊ toʊ /
adjective
Telephoto
2
American
[tel-uh-foh-toh]
/ ˈtɛl əˌfoʊ toʊ /
Trademark.
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a brand of apparatus for electrical transmission of photographs.
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a photograph transmitted by this apparatus.
Etymology
Origin of telephoto
1890–95; short for telephotographic; see telephotograph, -ic
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It’s hard to imagine a riskier trek, but he managed to pull it off, traveling through cities and towns with a telephoto lens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
He experimented restlessly with technology, trying out telephoto pictures of Kanchenjunga.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025
Sporting a telephoto lens with her camera, Philbin now can identify individual whales from their fins and tails and is second to Muul in sorting sighting tips and sending alerts.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2023
But they set aside for me this new camera she owned with a telephoto lens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023
Puglisi’s telephoto lens was in Nicole’s face as Mrs. Castro opened the car door and pushed Nicole into the back.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
The researchers found Dragonfly-2 using the Dragonfly Telephoto Array, an instrument designed to observe large and extremely faint objects in the night sky.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 22, 2021
They were up on the prison towers shooting through the cross hairs of a rifle scope, using it as a Telephoto lens.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2021
Telephoto lenses are folded into periscopes that run along the lengths of the phone for even longer zooms.
From The Verge ● Sep. 14, 2021
Meanwhile, Moment’s signature Wide 18mm lens and Telephoto 58mm lens remain a favorite of reviewers across the internet.
From The Verge ● Jan. 28, 2020
Telephoto view from near Electron, 20 miles, showing vast summit plateau left when the Mountain blew its head off.
From The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier' by John H. (John Harvey) Williams
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