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  noun

  a facsimile of a photograph transmitted electronically via a telephone system

Wirephoto

American  

[wahyuhr-foh-toh] / ˈwaɪərˌfoʊ toʊ /

Trademark.

Wirephotos plural

1. 1. a device for transmitting photographs over distances by wire.

   2. a photograph so transmitted.

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verb (used with object)

Wirephotoed, Wirephotoing

1. (lowercase) to transmit (a photograph) by means of a Wirephoto.

wirephoto British  

/ ˈwaɪəˌfəʊtəʊ /

noun

1. a facsimile of a photograph transmitted electronically via a telephone system

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Example Sentences

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His lines of communication were greatly extended in 1935 when the Associated Press inaugurated its first Wirephoto transmission service.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was thus in a position to draw level pictorially with the rival Daily News by splitting with it the $150,000 yearly New York fee for the A. P.'s Wirephoto service.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though the Examiner had no Associated Press Wirephoto Service, more than once it ran what looked like exact duplicates of Times Wirephotos of deaths & disasters.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a group he resembles almost anybody he happens to be standing next to; by himself he has a vague, muzzy look, as though instead of being born he had been sent by Wirephoto.

From Time Magazine Archive

After his first big splash in California, Snead saw his picture, a Wirephoto, in the New York Times.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Midwest member got on the wire, blatted the news to all wirephoto points by asking the New York office: "What about pictures on Roosevelt at Casablanca?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Fact is, Syracuse Journal published exclusively a half page picture aerial view of wrecked airplane, also a half page picture of rescue party going up the mountain, the day before the wirephoto started.

From Time Magazine Archive

Elsewhere in the hall are 45 other teletypes, a battery of wirephoto transmitters, and more than 2,000 telephone lines.

From Time Magazine Archive

Next day his photograph, distributed by A.P. wirephoto, was printed throughout the U.S., becoming a likely candidate for the 1944 Pulitzer Prize.

From Time Magazine Archive

The picture is fundamentally like a newspaper wirephoto, made of perhaps a million individual dots, each a different shade of gray, so fine and close together that at a distance the constituent dots are invisible.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan