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  wirephoto

  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

Any of A. P.'s 1,200 members is eligible for Wirephoto, simply by sharing the cost.

From Time Magazine Archive

Third and hottest of all was Wirephoto and John Francis Neylan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Both Publisher Hearst, with his 15 A. P. memberships, and Publisher Roy Wilson Howard with his six, strenuously fought against the Wirephoto project when it was introduced at last year's A. P. meeting.

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Oddest Wirephoto of the week: a burglar in a St. Louis tire shop stumbling over a trap that sounded a horn alarm, set off a flashlight, took his own picture.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the second day, however, the murder trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann began at Flemington, N. J. and thereafter Wirephoto had a chance to prove its worth.

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