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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Indonesian villager Octavius wades through the forest in rubber boots and tattered joggers, ears pricked, eyes peeled, a telephoto lens on his phone primed to capture orangutans, monkeys or birds.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
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
Armed with binoculars and a telephoto camera, they watch the cobalt waters for one of its great treasures - pygmy blue whales.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2024
Those new iPhones coming out with an improved telephoto lens will get plenty of use by fans showing up to Mission League basketball games this winter, considering how many celebrities might be making appearances.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
I checked the woods for telephoto lens flare and didn’t see any.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
Main: 48-megapixels f/1.8 with OIS Ultrawide: 50-megapixel f/2.2 Telephoto: 8-megapixel f/2.4 with OIS Front: 32-megapixel, fixed focus This isn’t exactly the same camera system as last year, and there are some software-based improvements.
From The Verge ● Apr. 5, 2022
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
Olear finally consented to speak a few words for the Telephoto News Co.
From Astounding Stories, June, 1931 by Various
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