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TELEPHOTO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does telephoto mean?
• TELEPHOTO (noun)
The noun TELEPHOTO has 1 sense:
1. a photograph made with a telephoto lens
Familiarity information: TELEPHOTO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A photograph made with a telephoto lens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
telephoto; telephotograph
Hypernyms ("telephoto" is a kind of...):
exposure; photo; photograph; pic; picture (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format)
Context examples
The rover's Mast Camera, or Mastcam, used its telephoto lens to produce the panorama; meanwhile, it relied on its medium-angle lens to produce a lower-resolution, nearly 650-million-pixel panorama that includes the rover's deck and robotic arm.
(Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Its Highest-Resolution Panorama Yet, NASA)
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