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1. (Before a vowel properly tel-, but more often in the full form), repr. Gr. τηλε-, combining form of τῆλε afar, far off; used in numerous (chiefly recent) scientific and technical terms, mostly denoting or connected with special appliances or methods for operating over long distances; also in several terms connected with psychical research, denoting actions or impressions produced at a distance from the exciting cause, independently of the normal means of communication. (The second element is properly and usually from Greek, exceptionally from Latin or English.) The earlier and more important of these words will be found in their alphabetical places; others follow here.
telaˈcoustic a., Psychics [acoustic], pertaining to or involving the perception of a sound beyond or apart from the possibility of ordinary hearing (cf. teloptic below). ˌteleaˈnemograph, ‘an anemograph that records at a distance by means of electricity’ (Cent. Dict. 1891). ˈteleˌbanking, a method of effecting banking transactions at a distance by electronic means. teleˈbarograph, ‘a barograph that records at a distance by means of electricity’ (Cent. Dict. 1891). ˌtelebaˈrometer, ‘a barometer that registers its indications at a distance by means of electric apparatus’ (ibid.). ˈtele-ˌcamera, (a) a telephotographic camera; (b) a television camera. teleˈcentric a., Optics, applied to a lens system of which the aperture or stop is at the principal focus; also absol. as n., a telecentric lens. teleˈchirograph [Gr. χείρ hand], a form of telautograph [cf. definition of telautograph]. teleˈcobalt, radioactive cobalt used as a radiation source in teletherapy; usu. attrib. ˌtelecoˈmmand, the remote control of machines or the like by electronic means; freq. attrib. telecoˈmmute v. intr., to work from home (esp. at a traditionally office job), communicating with one's place of employment, colleagues, etc., by telephone line or data link; hence telecoˈmmuter; telecoˈmmuting vbl. n. and ppl. a. ˈtelecoˈnnection Geol. [tr. Sw. fjärrkonnektion (G. De Geer 1916, in Geol. Fören. Förhandl. XXXVIII. 18)], the correlation over long distances of varves or other deposits that can be used for dating purposes; also transf. ˌteleconˈtrol = telecommand above; freq. attrib. teleconˈverter Photogr., a camera lens designed to be fitted in front of a standard lens to increase its effective focal length. teleˈcryptograph, a form of printing telegraph adopted for secret or private communication. teˈlectrograph, teˈlectroscope: see telelectro-. ˌtelecurieˈtherapy Med. [curie] = teletherapy below. teˈlediphone [Ediphone, name of a recording machine], a machine for recording speech from a telephone line or radio for subsequent transcription or broadcasting; hence teˈlediphoned a. ˈteleflash U.S., (equipment for transmitting) telegraphic news of racing results, odds, etc. ˌteleˈgenesis, the technique of artificial insemination. teˈlegnomy, teleˈgnosis Psychics, psychic perception of events happening at a distant place; clairvoyance; hence teleˈgnostic a. telehydrobaˈrometer [Gr. ὕδωρ water: see barometer], an instrument for recording electrically at a distance the pressure of a head of water or other liquid. ˌteleiˈconograph [Gr. εἰκών image: see -graph], an apparatus consisting of a telescope combined with a camera lucida, by which images of distant objects may be cast upon paper and traced. ˈtelekin [mod., f. Gr. κιν-εῖν to move], a device for the electric control of machinery from a distance. telekiˈnesis, Psychics [mod.L., f. Gr. κίνησις motion], movement of or in a body alleged to occur at a distance from, and without material connexion with, the motive cause or agent; hence telekiˈnetic a., belonging to telekinesis.: also transf. and fig.; ˌtelekiˈneticist, one who practises or has the power of telekinesis. teleˈlectric a., producing mechanical motions or effects at a distance by electrical means. teleˈlectrograph, shortened teˈlectrograph: cf. electrograph, an apparatus for producing at the receiving end a copy of a photograph or print at the transmitting end, by means of electric telegraphy. teleˈlectroscope, shortened teˈlectroscope [cf. prec. and -scope], an apparatus for reproducing at a distance a visual image, as that in a camera obscura, by means of electric telegraphy. ˈtele-lens Photogr., a telephoto lens. ˌtelemaˈnometer, a manometer which registers at a distance by means of electricity. telemeˈchanics, the art of transmitting power to a distance, esp. by electromagnetic waves as in wireless telegraphy; so teleˈmechanism. ˈteleˌmessage, a form of telegram introduced in October 1981 to replace the inland telegram, and abolished one year later. ˌtelemetaˈcarpal a., Comp. Anat., having vestiges only of the distal portion of the first and fifth metarcarpals, as in one group of the Cervidæ. teleˈmeteorograph, a meteorograph which records electrically at a distance; a combination of telethermograph, telebarograph, and teleanemograph; hence teleˌmeteoroˈgraphic a., teleˌmeteoˈrography. teleˈmicroscope, an optical instrument combining the functions of a telescope and a microscope; e.g. in enlarging a telescopic image or in projecting a microscopic image to a distance (e.g. upon a screen). ˈteleˌmotor, an apparatus for transmitting motive power to a distance; esp. a device for steering a ship from some part distant from the tiller, by means of hydraulic or pneumatic pressure, etc. tele-ˈnegative a. in telenegative lens, the negative element in a telephotographic lens: cf. telephotographic a.2, quot. 18923. telengyscope |-ˈɛndʒɪskəʊp|, incorrectly -engi- [see engyscope], an optical instrument combining the powers of a telescope and microscope (Cent. Dict. 1891). ˌtele-obˈjective a., having an object-glass adapted to photographing distant objects; as a tele-objective camera; n. (see quot.). ˈteleordering vbl. n., the computerized ordering of books by book sellers from publishers. teleˈphotogram, a message in the form of a picture transmitted by radio or television. ˌtelephoˈtometer, an instrument for measuring the brightness of a distant light source. ˈteleplasm Psychics, a hypothetical substance psychically materialized; ectoplasm; hence teleˈplasmic a. teleˈplastic a., Psychics [plastic; after telepathy, etc.]: see quot. 1890. ˈTele-player [player1], the proprietary name in the U.S. of a device for recording and playing back videotape. ˌtelepoˈlariscope, an optical instrument consisting of a telescope combined with a polariscope. tele-ˈpositive a., Optics: see quot. teleˈprocessing vbl. n., data processing that involves terminals located at a distance from the processor. teleˈpsychic n., a medium whose psychical powers are exerted at a distance; adj., pertaining to or involving the exertion of psychic powers at a distance. ˈtelepuppet colloq., a telechiric device, esp. one used in space. ˌteleradiˈography Med., radiography in which the X-ray tube is placed some distance from the plate in order to minimize distortion. teleˈradiophone, a radiophone producing sounds at a distance by means of an electric current as in telegraphy. teleˈradium, radium used as a radiation source in teletherapy. teˈlergic a., pertaining to or involving telergy. ˈtelergy, Psychics [after energy], the supposed force operating in telepathy, regarded as correlated with the various forms of physical energy, or as directly affecting the brain or organism of the percipient; so teˈlergically adv., by means of telergy. ˌteleˌroentgeˈnography (also -röntgen-) Med. (chiefly U.S.) = teleradiography above. teleseism |ˈtɛlɪsaɪz(ə)m| [seism], a distant or remote earth-tremor as recorded on a seismograph; hence teleˈseismic a.; teleˈseismically adv. ˈteleseme |-siːm| [Gr. σῆµα sign], an electric signalling apparatus used in hotels, etc., fitted with an indicator which shows the article or service required. ˈteleˌshopping, a method of ordering goods from shops by electronic means. teleˈsoftware Computers, software transmitted by wire or broadcast for use by any number of independent receiving terminals. ˌtelesoˈmatic a., Psychics [Gr. σῶµα body]: see teleplastic, quot. 1890. teleˈspectroscope, a combination of a telescope and a spectroscope, for spectroscopic observations of the heavenly bodies. teleˈstereoscope, an instrument with two pairs of mirrors so arranged that distant objects viewed by means of it appear to stand out in relief, as in a stereoscope. ˈtele-talkies, cinematographic films broadcast by television (disused). teleˈtherapy Med., radiotherapy using a source of radiation at a distance from the patient. teleˈthermograph, a thermograph which records electrically at a distance; a self-registering telethermometer; hence teleˈthermogram. ˌteletherˈmometer, a thermometer that indicates the temperature measured elsewhere; hence teletherˈmometry, the use of a telethermometer. ˌteletoˈpometer [Gr. τόπος place: see -meter], name for a special form of telemeter (telemeter n. 1). ˌteletransporˈtation = teleportation (rare); hence (as a back-formation) teletransˈport v. trans. ˈteletype, a type-printing telegraph; hence teleˈtypic a.; teleˈtypograph, a form of machine telegraph which records its message by perforating a tape that sets in motion a typesetting machine. telewriter |tɛlɪˈraɪtə(r)|, an instrument which electrically reproduces in facsimile a written message; a form of telautograph; hence ˈtelewrite v. (nonce-wd.), to send a message by a telewriter. teˈloptic a., Psychics [optic], pertaining to or involving the perception as if by sight of an object beyond or apart from the possibility of ordinary vision (cf. telacoustic above); so teˈlosmic a. [Gr. ὀσµή smell], involving the perception of a smell in a similar way.
1893*Telacoustic [see teleplastic].
1981Amer. Banker 18 Feb. 12/3 Consider the things you will be able to do—telereservations, telegames, *telebanking, teleshopping.
1910O. Wheeler Mod. Telephotography 68 Messrs. Zeiss also make a special *tele-camera. 1951I. Asimov Stars like Dust xvii. 162 The movement of the tele-camera can be so adjusted as to counteract the motion of the ship in its orbit. 1960Harper's Bazaar Oct. 82/2 It is not too late even now to bring in the tele-cameras. 1980T. Holme Neapolitan Streak 42 There were tele-camera teams from the RAI.
1902Mann & Millikan tr. Drude's Theory of Optics i. iv. 75 Certain positions of the iris can be chosen for which the entrance- or exit-pupils lie at infinity... To attain this it is necessary to place the iris behind S1 at its principal focus... The system is then called *telecentric. 1921Glasgow Herald 15 June 7 It was fitted with..a 12 in. Telecentric, and a variant of my ‘Dodo’ tele-lens. 1973D. A. Spencer Focal Dict. Photogr. Technol. 619 (caption) Telecentric optical system.
1903Electr. Wld. & Engineer 20 June 1055 *Telechirograph.
1956C. W. Wilson Radium Therapy (ed. 2) 286/1 (Index), *telecobalt therapy. 1959[see teleradium below]. 1980Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts Jan. 95/1 These telecobalt..machines are now part of the routine equipment of most radiotherapy departments.
1972Sunday Tel. 30 Apr. 34/4 He sees on a television screen the view he would have from the driver's seat of the car he is controlling remotely. These ‘*telecommand’ cars are about to be used for complex..handling tests. 1978Times 3 Nov. 27/4 The Post Office itself has listed the main telecommunications services..envisaged for the years 1985 and 2000... By 1985 there will be..view-data,..telemetry (the radio transmission of measurements), telecommand (remote control of machines). 1980Times 15 Jan. 16 A low-power microcomputer system has been built..and a telecommand receiver has been completed.
1974Economist 5 Jan. 14/1 As there is no logical reason why the cost of telecommunication should vary with distance, quite a lot of people by the late 1980s will *telecommute daily to their London offices while living on a Pacific island if they want to.
1975Ibid. 25 Oct. 39/3 *telecommuting is coming. When production is properly automated even in service industries, probably 60% of American breadwinners will be brainworkers. Ibid. 43/3 *telecommuter terminals will stop social interaction at the workplace. 1976Ibid. 25 Dec. 56/1 Small ones, employing various piecework-earning *telecommuting housewives in their own homes. 1981Ibid. 5 Sept. 20/1 telecommuters are workers who do not have to travel to their office... They need only their terminal links of today, enhanced by new gadgetry, to make sure they never have to leave their villages. 1982N.Y. Times Mag. 14 Nov. 133 A situation known as ‘telecommuting’ or, more cozily, the ‘electronic cottage’.
1934G. De Geer in Geografiska Annaler XVI. 3 The general law that the annual amount of meltwater deposits along the ice-border varied congruently is..definitely fixed. *teleconnections were thus, by a great number of close connections,..acting every year for..the whole of Fennoscandia. 1939G. Clark Archæol. & Society v. 141 Attempts to extend the sequence across the Baltic have not met with general acceptance any more than have the still more ambitious ‘teleconnexions’ between the Swedish varve-sequence and those in North and South America. 1970S. Thorarinsson in R. Berger Sci. Methods Medieval Archaeol. 325 A young Swedish scientist..has realized my old dream of establishing tephrochronological teleconnection between Iceland and Scandinavia. 1979Harvard Mag. May–June 14 Meterologists have coined the phrase ‘teleconnections’ to describe the apparent correlation between El Niño [sc. an erratically recurring ocean current in the Pacific] and disruptive weather patterns all around the earth. 1983Nature 18 Aug. 583/3 Teleconnection with the Bristlecone pine absolute scale..has already been achieved for Bronze Age varves in south Russia and for tree-rings in Turkey.
1933Sci. Abstr. B. XXXVI. 225 A general survey of the subject of telemeasuring with a brief account of *telecontrol systems. 1959Times 30 July 2/3 The installation and commissioning of telecontrol and telemetering systems [for an oil company]. 1974Sci. Amer. Nov. 41/1 The control tasks described so far, including the gathering and presentation of information about the system.., can be realized in principle by analogue control circuits,..telecontrol devices and the like.
1966‘A. Hall’ 9th Directive ix. 83 A Pentax X-15 35 mm single reflex with a 135 mm lens that took a ×2 Auto *teleconverter. 1979SLR Camera Mar. 36/3 A short cut to getting involved in tele photography, where your budget is tight, is to use a tele-converter.
1904Athenæum 5 Nov. 628/3 The device for secret telegraphy or *telecryptograph of Messrs. Siemens and Halske also deserves notice.
1909Daily Mirror 13 Aug. 14/2 The pictures were wired from Manchester to London last night in six minutes by the Thorne-Baker *telectrograph.
1884Knight Dict. Mech. Supp., *Telectroscope, an apparatus for reproducing by telegraph the images obtained in the camera obscura..based on the property possessed by selenium of offering a variable and very sensitive electrical resistance according to the different gradations of light.
1939E. Liljenkrantz Cancer Handbk. ii. 23 *telecurietherapy with 10 gm of radium (a quarter of a million dollars' worth) means usually treatment distance of 15 cm. 1954Arch. Otolaryngol. LIX. 345 Advanced inoperable carcinoma is best treated by telecurietherapy.
1953Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XLIV. 117 The *telediphone records of the [television] programmes were broken up into what appeared to be the principal points contained in the programme. 1973Listener 7 June 757/1 The BBC started making telediphone transcripts of what people actually did say, unscripted, on the air.
1957Oxford Mag. 31 Oct. 70/2, I have before me the B.B.C.'s *telediphoned transcript of the discussion.
1937Sun (Baltimore) 16 June 4/5 A ‘*teleflash’ and racing slips taken by police in the tavern were not sufficient for a conviction. 1951Ibid. 23 Mar. 28/1 Equipment of the ‘teleflash’ type which..was used for announcements of racing results and odds.
1935*telegenesis [see eutelegenesis]. 1958News Chron. 4 Feb. 4/8 (heading) Telegenesis.
1911W. F. Barrett Psychical Research xi. 161 Dr. Heysinger..suggests the term *telegnosis, or knowing at a distance, instead of clairvoyance. 1932J. Buchan Gap in Curtain i. 44 The instinct which had its seat in this cell specialised in time-perception... I had been reading lately about telegnosis. 1962C. D. Broad Lect. on Psychical Res. viii. 222 The distinction between explicitly referential and merely unwilling telegnosis. Ibid. 223 Experiences which are only unwittingly *telegnostic.
1906Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Mar. 4 Mr. Grier possesses the faculty of ‘*telegnomy’, which enables him..to perceive..events which are taking place on the other side of the Atlantic.
1891Cent. Dict., *Telehydrobarometer.
1877Knight Dict. Mech., *Teleiconograph.
1905Sci. Amer., Suppl. 6 May 24539 The inventor distinguishes between a simple *telekin, wherein only a single motion is considered, and a multiple telekin, which permits of a complexity of motions.
1890Myers in Proc. Soc. Psych. Research Dec. 668 Extramediumistic operations, as thought-transference, telepathy, *telekinesis (Fernwirkung), or movements of objects without contact. 1905Sat. Rev. 19 Aug. 250 Of the other phenomena..that of telekinesis, or movement of objects without material contact. 1962Punch 5 Dec. 805/3 Dusailly..has made a first step towards telekinesis by using the electrical cavity of the brain to operate a switch. 1983J. Melville Hand of Glass vi. 146, I had seen it move... If you didn't believe in telekinesis..then Merry must have practised some form of hypnotism on me.
1890Myers in Proc. Soc. Psych. Research Dec. 669 For the alleged movements without contact..M. Aksakof's new word ‘*telekinetic’ seems to me the best attainable. a1966‘M. na Gopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 94 An œuvre which would show his telekinetic treatment of over-tonality. 1972Countryman Winter 83 Almost all contemporary investment in the countryside is a telekinetic expression of the distracted town. 1977A. Wilson Strange Ride R. Kipling vi. 291 Trix accumulated clairvoyant, time-travelling, telekinetic and exorcistic powers.
1949Startling Stories May 22/1 ‘Just what are his potentialities?’ queried Shey. ‘Is he a hypnotist? A *telekineticist?’ 1965J. Kingston in J. Carnell New Writings in S-F III. 68 Telekineticists..are people who can move things without touching them, change physical states at a distance.
1909Cent. Dict., Suppl. s.v., An organ with a *telelectric attachment.
1898Daily News 10 Mar. 6/3 It is called the ‘*Telelectroscope’, because it renders objects visible in their natural colours at a distant place by means of electricity. Ibid., If we had had the ‘Telelectroscope’ in operation some time ago, we might have gone into a theatre in London and witnessed the eclipse of the sun in India for ourselves.
1921*Tele-lens [see telecentric adj. above]. 1979Amat. Photographer Feb. 74/2 The modern telelens (and a tele can be as short as 100 mm)..is the biggest boon since sliced bread.
1891Cent. Dict., *Telemanometer.
1909Athenæum 6 Mar. 293/1 The researches now being made..into what is called *tele-mechanics, or the art of transmitting power to a distance by waves in the ether and without wires.
1907Ibid. 29 June 798/3 The phenomena..of *tele-mechanism, or the operation of machines at a distance.
1981Times 20 Oct. 28/4 A new, cheaper form of telegram called the *telemessage is to be introduced by British Telecom as an inland service next Monday.
1878Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 887 Plesiometacarpal and *telemetacarpal limb—characters..closely corresponding with the distribution of the Cervidæ.
1881Nature 14 Apr. 564/2 On March 26.. There were repeated at the Brussels Observatory experiments with Van Rysselberghes' *telemeteorograph, which prove that the registration of the meteorological elements..may be made automatically at very great distances.
Ibid., The author explained to the Minister a plan of International *Telemeteorography.
1883Science I. 88 The establishment of an international *telemeteorographic system.
1860Mayne Expos. Lex., Teleomicroscopium,..an instrument for enlarging or increasing the forms of more remote or indistinct objects: a *teleomicroscope [sic]. 1895Arena (Boston) App. 13 Prof. D. S. Holman, the celebrated microscopist... His lectures..are illustrated by the tele-microscope, which projects upon a screen nearly all conceivable experiments. 1897Tit-Bits 11 Dec. 207/3 A 10 in. telescope can, by means of the new telemicroscope be made to magnify 25000 diameters.
1890Nature 3 Apr. 516/2 The steering motor is placed directly on the quadrant of the tiller, and is actuated from the bridge by means of what the author describes as a *telemotor. 1897Daily News 20 Sept. 3/1 A new steam steering engine has been added, having a telemotor on Messrs. Brown Bros.' system. 1905*Tele-negative [see tele-positive].
1902Mann, etc. tr. P. Drude's The. Optics i. v. 94 A..*teleobjective, which consists of a combination of a convergent and a divergent system placed at a distance apart.
1977Bookseller 14 May 2432/2 A *teleordering terminal for bookshops... The value of teleordering from the bookseller's point of view is partly to receive books a few days sooner from publishers.
1929Telegr. & Telephone Jrnl. XVI. 49/1 The transmission of pictures by telegraphic means is coming to the front in the U.S.A... An enterprising firm in New York recently sent out 300 *telephotograms of the latest feminine fashions to all parts of the States. 1937Times 30 Oct. 14/2 The London television station transmitted last night the first ‘telephotogram’ to a ship at sea—a visual message of greeting to the master of the Britannic.
1930Monthly Weather Rev. Nov. 440/2 In the measurements over the sea..the *telephotometer..and the theodolite were set up on the point of the mole. 1949Proc. Inst. Electr. Engineers XCVI. ii. 456/2 It was possible to calibrate the telephotometer in daylight by reference to tungsten-filament standard lamps of 1-, 2- and 5-kW sizes over ranges varying from 1 500 to 5 000 ft.
1927Daily Express 28 Sept. 9 *Teleplasm..was shown issuing from the face of the tranced woman. 1978Smyth & Stemman Mysteries of Afterlife 225 (caption) The teleplasm..is compared with a control sample of ordinary paper.
1930Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Aug. 683/1 *Teleplasmic masses resembling arms and hands were seen.
1890Myers in Proc. Soc. Psych. Research Dec. 669 M. Aksakof uses the term ‘telesomatic’ for the phenomena of so-called ‘materialisation’... It would be better, I think, to give the name *teleplastic to all this class of alleged phenomena. 1893Chicago Advance 31 Aug., Certain teleplastic, telacoustic, teloptic, and telosmic occurrences.
1968Daily Tel. 12 Dec. 25/3 The *tele-player will cost about {pstlg}200 and each tele-cartridge..{pstlg}20. 1971Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 23 Nov. tm206/1 Teleplayer. For television apparatus... First use Mar. 24 1970.
1878Lockyer Stargazing 441 The *Telepolariscope.
1905Sci. Amer., Suppl. 30 Sept. 24861 This lens, called tele-negative, need not be connected permanently with the ordinary objective (which is called *tele-positive), a loose connection by means of a removable short tube being quite sufficient.
[1961Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 22 Aug. tm124 *Tele-processing... For services in organizing, planning, developing, installing, maintaining and operating data processing systems [etc.]. ]1962Engineering 8 June 758/2 The development of ‘remote computing’ or ‘teleprocessing’ as it is sometimes called. 1970Computers & Humanities IV. 323 Classrooms equipped with voice recorders; and with teletypewriters..for creating perforated paper tape for batch teleprocessing. 1980R. L. Duncan Brimstone x. 263 ‘How will the reprogramming take place?’ ‘Teleprocessing. Over the telephone lines.’
1914A. L. Teixeira de Mattos tr. Maeterlinck's Unknown Guest ii. 63 There are seers, so-called ‘*telepsychics’, who are not psychometers. 1926F. Cazzamalli in Jrnl. Amer. Soc. Psychical Res. XX. 1 (title) Telepsychic phenomena and cerebral radiations.
1960Sci. News Let. 2 Jan. 4/2 The ‘*telepuppet’, as he [sc. F. L. Whipple] called it, would have a little feedback on handling pressure to give the human operator a feel of the object the machine is working on. 1963Flight Internat. LXXXIII. 244/2 It is foreseen that the adaptive machine or ‘telepuppet’, primitive versions of which are already used in handling radio-active materials, have a key role in space missions. 1973C. Sagan Cosmic Connection i. viii. 62 There may be telepuppets, devices landed on another planet but fully controlled by an individual human being in orbit.
1909Arch. Roentgen Ray XIV. 38 (heading) An instantaneous shutter for *teleradiography. 1928Brit. Jrnl. Radiol. I. 368 Arising out of these large milliampereages are the screening stands and radiographic appliances for teleradiography. 1974Biol. Abstr. LVII. 6326/1 Teleradiography and tomography were used to investigate 57 able-bodied male patients.
1881Nature 13 Oct. 576/2 Multiple inverse electric *teleradiophone, by M. Mercadier.
1937Nature 25 Dec. 1109/1 *Teleradium has been practised by several centres in Great Britain over a period of years. 1959R. W. Raven Cancer V. 157 Usually a single teleradium or telecobalt field is applied to the undersurface of the chin beneath the tumour.
1909O. Lodge Survival of Man iv. xi. 163 This is the hypothesis of actual telepathic or *telergic influence from some outside intelligence.
1908Sir O. Lodge in Hibbert Jrnl. Apr. 575 A foreign intelligence, acting either telepathically through the mind or *telergically by a more direct process straight on the brain.
1884Gurney & Myers in 19th Cent. May 814 Unless some such relation [of telepathy to space and to matter] can be demonstrated we cannot reasonably speak of a psychical *telergy—an action of mind on mind at a distance—as correlated with any energy which we have learnt to measure. 1903Myers Hum. Personality I. Gloss., Telergy.
1912Index-Catal. Libr. Surg.-General's Office, U.S. Army XVII. 712 *Teleröntgenography. 1923R. Knox Radiogr. & Radio-Therapy i. 303 When it is possible to obtain full exposures of the thorax at a distance of 2 metres, then teleröntgenography of the thorax is of decided advantage. 1972J. E. Cullinan Illustrated Guide to X-Ray Technics i. 3/1 (caption) A 72 inch focus-film distance is used for teleroentgenography to minimize geometric enlargement and distortion.
1905Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 1904 47 [In Italy] there are fifteen first-class observatories provided with apparatus to record *teleseisms and local shocks. 1972J. G. Dennis Struct. Geol. xvi. 363 (caption) Teleseism (distant earthquake).
1905Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 1904 47 Japan has at least five stations for *teleseismic observations. 1969New Scientist 25 Dec. 627/1 The so-called teleseismic data..have provided a rich new fund of research material for analysing the Earth's interior. 1974Nature 23 Aug. 622/3 Nakamura and his colleagues have attempted to determine both P and S wave velocities throughout the lunar mantle from..high frequency teleseismic events and deep moonquakes.
1971I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth xxiv. 336/2 A relatively narrow cone at the source can be seen *teleseismically.
1890*Telesomatic [see teleplastic above]. 1891Cent. Dict., *Teleseme. 1899Westm. Gaz. 8 June 10/2 The bedrooms are fitted with a model kind of call, the Teleseme—a dumb waiter. 1901F. Harrison in 19th Cent. June 916 Life in the States is one perpetual whirl of telephones, telesemes, phonographs, electric bells, etc. 1981*Teleshopping [see telebanking above]. 1983Times 17 Aug. 3/6 The channel will also have the facility for shopping from the armchair at the touch of a switch, now termed ‘teleshopping’.
1976W. J. G. Overington in Computing Europe 4 Mar. 8/2, I have..been theoretically developing a computing system based on Ceefax/Oracle which I call *Telesoftware (ie software at a distance). 1977Wireless World Sept. 50/2 Perhaps the most marketable use for Telesoftware might be in video games. 1979Guardian 24 Sept. 21/5 Experiments are under way to use Prestel for exchanging software programs and ‘telesoftware’ is also available for teletext services. 1982Datalink 18 Jan. 5/1 The programme forms only part of the project... There's telesoftware, which uses the BBC's Ceefax teletext service to broadcast software.
1871tr. Schellen's Spectr. Anal. liii. 247 Young's *tele⁓spectroscope. 1882Young Sun iii. 77 The combined instrument is then often called a tele-spectroscope.
1864Webster, *Telestereoscope, a stereoscope adapted to view distant natural objects or landscapes; a telescopic stereoscope. 1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 541/1 Von Helmholtz invented the Telestereoscope, an instrument which places as it were the point of view of both eyes wide apart.
1930Moseley & Chapple Television viii. 95 Since *tele-talkies are sent out in a manner very similar to the transmission of television, they can be received on the identical machine which receives television images.
1913Dorland Med. Dict. (ed. 7) 946/1 *Teletherapy, absent treatment. 1929Brit. Med. Jrnl. 11 May 845/1 In teletherapy proper the radium is employed at distances as great as 16 cm. 1945C. W. Wilson Radium Therapy vii. 159 As the name implies, radium teletherapy..is the therapeutic use of a quantity of radium at a distance from the patient. 1974Nature 11 Oct. 521/2 Hyperthermia in conjunction with readily available radiation sources (such as cobalt teletherapy units..) might provide some of the same advantages as heavy particle therapy.
1891Cent. Dict., *Telethermograph..*Telethermometer..*Telethermometry. 1972Science 5 May 532/3 A thermistor probe which recorded rectal temperatures was connected to a telethermometer.
1891Cent. Dict., *Teletopometer, a telemeter in which two telescopes are used. 1905Daily Chron. 9 Feb. 3/6 To the instrument, known as the teletopometer, a telescope is fixed, in which appear two pictures of the distant object. One picture is stationary, while the other moves and is brought to cover the first. A scale attached..indicates at once the distance of the object.
1968Punch 2 Oct. 488/1 A Royal Martian Vole..*teletransported herself to your planet in 1964.
1966New Scientist 20 Jan. 169/3 Each contributing a special faculty such as telekinesis, *teletransportation, and so on.
1908Times 5 Dec. 16/3 An apparatus called a ‘*telewriter’ for electrically reproducing at a distance handwriting, drawings [etc.].
1908Daily Chron. 21 Dec., The Lord Mayor, ‘*telewriting’ to the Lord Mayor of Manchester, tendered his cordial greetings to him and his fellow-citizens from the City of London and himself. 1909Ibid. 13 Jan. 6/1 Telewriters with telephones attached will be put in in the case of a limited number of original subscribers without any rental charges or other initial expenses. 1893*Teloptic, *Telosmic [see teleplastic above].
2. [f. television.] Used to form ns. denoting activities, persons, things, etc., connected with television (not sharply distinguishable from an attrib. use of tele n.2).
a. In a virtually limitless range of largely colloq., humorous, or journalistic formations, as telechair, tele-course, tele-drama, tele-studio, etc.
1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 837/2 Telestudio,..the enclosure, sound-proofed and treated acoustically, which is used for originating television or broadcasting programmes. 1942O. E. Dunlap Future of Television vi. 80 The excitement of watching an actual event in progress compensated for any blur or foggy effects, caused chiefly by the tele-eyes' lack of depth and focus. 1953Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 3 Jan. 3/3 Mr. Sherwood's first tele⁓drama will be seen in the spring by an anticipating nation. 1953Sun (Baltimore) 15 Dec. (B ed.) 10/2 Mr. Gould's teleplay was the better of the two, although by no means a masterpiece. 1954Ibid. 5 Feb. (B ed.) 8/1 The tele⁓version..reflected both the assets and faults of the original. 1955House & Garden Apr. 70/1 Yellow appears again on the back of the black-seated telechair. 1957Economist 19 Oct. 226/1 ‘Tele-courses’ [in the U.S.] have in some cases completely replaced conventional classes. 1957Cinema 4 Sept. 3 (heading) Tele-movies start in U.S. 1957P. Wildeblood Main Chance 54 Ginny had..blossomed out into a quite new kind of star: the Telepersonality. 1958Spectator 10 Jan. 37/2 The Duke [of Bedford] is so anxious to please the tele⁓masses that he has taken voice-production lessons. 1962Listener 30 Aug. 327/1 Three of Mr Bowen's teleplays. 1967Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 22 Mar. 27/1 A few swinging teleclerics try vainly to up-date God's image. 1967Which? Oct. 290/1 Telepundits donned ceremonial expressions of awe. 1970Times 25 July 12 The director of telemedicine at the Massachusetts hospital..says that 60 per cent of the patients have found the automated consultations acceptable. 1972Observer 30 Jan. 9/7 They became something that was to be crucial to the development of television—the first tele-journalists. 1978Ibid. 29 Jan. 29/1, I say ‘familiar’ because teledrama modes are well established. 1983Times 18 Aug. 7/6 We were hanging on the halting lips of all those returning officers..and marvelling at the sharpness and stamina of the telepundits who could divine at the drop of a percentage that the Tories were sweeping the seaside resorts. 1983Listener 22 Sept. 28/3 This was also the week of The Godfather, in Coppola's long tele-version, played on BBC1 at 9.25 pm. every week-night but Wednesday.
b. Special Combs.: ˈtelefilm, a cinematographic film shown on television, esp. one made for that purpose; also, the film medium itself; such films collectively; ˌteleˈpolitics, political activity conducted through television; teleroman |telerɔmɑ̃| [Canad. Fr. téléroman (also used): see roman n.4], a French Canadian television soap opera; ˈtelescreen, a television screen; teleˈvarsity [varsity], a university that teaches its students by means of television, an open university (disused); tele-vérité |televerite| (also in Fr. form télé-vérité) [f. as cinéma-vérité], television broadcasting that presents real life; documentary television; televersity [uni)versity] = televarsity above (disused).
1939Los Angeles Extended Area Telephone Directory 1003/1 Telefilm 16 mm Productions Co... 6039 Hollywood Blvd. 1950Electronic Engin. XXII. 8/1 With the advent of television recording or ‘telefilm’ as it is called, a new tool has been placed in the hands of the television programme builders. 1958Times 20 Nov. 3/4 Plans were announced for the largest Anglo-American co-production scheme yet envisaged in the field of the tele-film. 1975New Yorker 19 May 88/2 It has been translated into telefilm with a greater concern for the Indian position than has been shown by most filmmakers in the past.
1959Observer 4 Oct. 21/3 Lennox-Boyd looked a bit tense, but was certainly controlled. His exit line, to the effect that he had been doing the most wonderful work in the world, deserves a place for itself in the annals of telepolitics. 1975Listener 9 Oct. 479/1 It is a pity telepolitics are so unlike the real thing.
1973Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 July 13/3 CBC President Laurent Picard's marked liking for the numerous serials seen on CBC French TV, called teleromans.
1942O. E. Dunlap Future of Television vi. 80 The clarity of the telescreen could not be compared to the sharpness of a newsreel. 1949‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-Four i. 6 The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. 1979Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 July 14/3 This wit pales towards the end, as Smith is systematically reduced through the clever interplay of video playbacks (read telescreen for life in Oceania) with O'Brien's stiff and triumphant martinet's voice.
1961Economist 16 Dec. 1105/2 The daytime hours on this network, when the voluntary ‘televarsity’ students would be at their ordinary everyday work. 1964New Statesman 14 Feb. 264/3 Télé-verité may have reached its apogee..when a man was tortured to within a few minutes of death in front of the camera. 1976Listener 11 Mar. 310/1 Selected by their daughter's boyfriend, a television producer, as the subject of his tele-vérité film.
1950Time 21 Aug. 44/2 Televersity. For years, educators have been talking about television as an ideal teaching medium... [The University of] Michigan will start weekly Sunday afternoon telecasts.
3. [f. telephone n.] Prefixed to ns. with reference to a service obtained by means of the telephone, as ˈtele-ad, an advertisement placed in a newspaper by telephone; ˈtelebus, (a service offering) a bus that can be summoned by telephone; ˌtelefacˈsimile (see quot. 1967); ˈtelelecture (see quot. 1969); ˈtelemarketing vbl. n. (orig. U.S.), the marketing of goods, services, etc., by means of (freq. unsolicited) telephone calls to prospective customers; hence (as back-formation) ˈtelemarket v. trans.; also ˈtelemarketer; ˈtelesale, a sale effected by a salesperson who telephones prospective customers.
1976Southern Even. Echo (Southampton) 3 Nov. 3/8 Tele-Ads from telephone subscribers within the ‘Southern Evening Echo’ circulation area only are accepted. 1977Financial Times 23 Apr. 13/6 Journalists and tele-ad girls should have direct access to the terminals.
1969Telebus [see dial v. 4 b]. 1972Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 25 Feb. 8/1 The telebus service..uses half-size buses that pick passengers up at their homes and drive them to the nearest regular bus route terminal.
1967Britannica Bk. of Year 804/3 Telefacsimile, a system for the transmission and reproduction of fixed graphic matter (as printing) involving the use of signals transmitted over telephone wires (as between libraries). 1968Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 17 Feb. 60 Colleges today are..piping the specialist's voice and face in by telelecture and television. 1969Britannica Bk. of Year 801/1 Telelecture, 1. A loudspeaker connected to a telephone line for amplifying voice communication. 2. A lecture delivered to an audience by telelecture. 1981Monitor (McAllen, Texas) 1 Mar. 24/5 A series of telelectures entitled ‘Good Health—the key to Happy Living’ is continuing at Knapp Memorial Methodist Hospital.
1983Inc. July 51/1 (caption) Al Felly..had a great way to telemarket his flowers. 1985DM News 1 Dec. 6/3 Each working day, an average of 200 selected companies are telemarketed.
1984Inc. Apr. 111/2 He's got 25 telemarketers who phone high net worth individuals. 1987Business Week 9 Feb. 85/3 It also compiles phone numbers of homeowners for telemarketers.
1980Advertising Age 22 Sept. 66/1 A very fine balance—continued excellence in technological development combined with the targeted, personalized methods of telemarketing. 1981Harvard Business Rev. July–Aug. 104/1 The newer tools include national account management, demonstration centers, telemarketing, and new improved forms of catalog selling. 1986E. Anglian Daily Times 22 May 41/4 (Advt.), Part-time tele-marketing vacancy working from home.
1963Spectator 12 Apr. 478/3 The advantages of ‘telesales’ over direct mail. 1981Event 16 Oct. 99/3 (Advt.), Dynamic telesales personnel.
Add:[1.] ˈtelebetting, a method of placing bets at a distance by electronic means.
1983Financial Times 25 Oct. ii. 11/2 Thorn EMI offer similar plans, but *telebetting on the interactive service plus pay-per-view for feature films.
ˈtelebroking, the transacting of stock market business at a distance by electronic means.
1984Financial Times 23 Oct. i. 8/6 Mentioning his own company's *telebroking service, Mr Baughan said home banking and home broking would soon be linked.
ˈteleshopping, substitute for def.: a method of ordering goods from shops by telephone or direct computer link; hence ˈteleˌshopper, a customer who buys goods in this way; also (see quot. 1978), the equipment used for this.
1978Harvard Business Rev. Sept.–Oct. 82/1 So long as sight, feel, smell, or personal service was not important to the consumer when ordering the merchandise, it would be a candidate for the *teleshopper. 1984Christian Science Monitor 3 Jan. 27/3 Studies have indicated that the elderly, among other convenience-minded groups, could eventually be big teleshoppers. 1988Daily Tel. 15 Mar. 9/1 The pilot scheme..will allow customers to order groceries using a computer and an adapted television and have them delivered... The Duchess will watch the first ‘teleshoppers’, at St John's House.
ˈteleteaching, teaching at a distance by electronic means.
1953Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 6 Jan. 3/7 All three Baltimore stations..offered time and technicians for ‘*teleteaching’. Each station will beam studio-to-living room courses for the duration of the strike. 1978Jrnl. Communication XXVIII. 141 Although the lack of non-verbal cues exacerbated everyday teaching problems, tele-teaching was a viable alternative to no personal contact at all. 1990Independent on Sunday 20 May (Business Suppl.) 27/3 These systems include alarm systems, tele-conferencing, video entryphones, home banking and shopping and even tele-teaching for colleges.
ˈtelework v. intr. = telecommute vb. above; also as n.; hence ˈteleworker n., ˈteleworking vbl. n.
1981Christian Science Monitor 24 Feb. b8/3 As fuel costs rise, it will become attractive to have people work electronically from home or neighborhood ‘*telework centers’ to save on transportation and energy. 1982Computerworld Extra! 17 Mar. 64/1 Regardless of how telecommuting is defined, the full-time or even part-time teleworker is still a rare bird. 1984Time 30 Jan. 63 Companies often select their best and brightest employees for teleworking because these workers require little supervision. 1988Times 8 Sept. 10/8 How will teleworking cope with the lack of office fellowship, and living on top of the job? Ibid. 15 Sept. 3/2 The focus of the ‘teleworker's' home-based desk would be a small portable computer plugged directly into the telephone socket. 1989Daily Tel. 22 Mar. 31/3 The technology needed to telework can be as basic as a telephone, or can extend to fax and answering machines, copier, typewriter, and word processor or personal computer.
Add:[1.] ˈtelecottage [tr. Sw. telestuga, f. stuga cottage], a room or building, esp. in a rural area, containing computers and telecommunications equipment for use by members of the local community.
1989InfoWorld 27 Mar. 41/3 *Telecottages have been set up in 25 Scandinavian cities, offering computer, telex, and fax services to local companies and residents. ‘But another service they offer is language translation, and this is where the Telecottages act as a virtual company,’ Adler said. 1989Times 7 Dec. 37/2 The first British telecottage, to be officially opened today week, has been set up in a school at Warslow, Staffordshire. 1993Oxford Times 10 Sept. 2/2 Stonesfield Community Trust has won permission from West Oxfordshire planners for a post office, workshop and telecottage in a former glove factory.
teleˈcottaging n., working by means of a telecottage.
1991Oxf. Dict. New Words 285 From Scandinavia in the second half of the decade came the concept of the telecottage... Working from one of these is known as *telecottaging. 1993Irish Times 8 Apr. (Special ed.) 5/6 Telecottaging. Rural enterprise centres where telecommunications would eliminate the problems of peripherality.
teledilˈdonics n. pl. (usu. const. as sing.) [f. dildo n.1 + -onics, after electronics], the proposed use of virtual reality to mediate sexual interaction between computer users operating in different places.
1990Washington Times 20 Dec. e2/2 So pervasive is the idea of sexual escapades in VR that there's even a name for it—*teledildonics. 1991Independent on Sunday 9 June 23/5 ‘Teledildonics’, new as it is, has already caused a few ripples. You will certainly, in the near future, be able to have simulated sex with a graphically enhanced partner of your choice. |