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单词 telephote
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telephoten.

Brit. /ˈtɛɪᵻfəʊt/, U.S. /ˈtɛləˌfoʊt/
Forms: 1800s telephote, 1800s– telephot, 1900s téléphot. Also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: tele- comb. form, -phote comb. form.
Etymology: < tele- comb. form + -phote comb. form.In use denoting a telephotographic lens or objective (see sense 4) after French téléphote (1903 or earlier in this sense).
1. Any of various (proposed) devices designed to transmit and reproduce images over a distance by converting light into electrical signals. Cf. telelectroscope n. at tele- comb. form 1a. Now historical and rare.
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1878 Weekly Arizona Miner 22 Feb. The new invention is called the ‘telephot’, ‘telephos’, or some such name.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 886/1 Telephote, an instrument or apparatus for conveying messages or images by transmission of light.
1948 S. Kempner Television Encycl. 361/1 Quite a number of telephots have been imagined, described, and patented. Few, however, actually appeared.
2013 S. R. Wilk How Ray Gun got its Zap xlv. 245 In 1880 John Perry and Edward Ayrton..suggested how a telephote might be made to work.
2. Any of various devices used for conveying messages over a distance by means of flashes of light. Obsolete. rare.
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society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > flashing signal
flashing signals1858
flashlight1886
telephote1893
flasher1909
1893 Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star 10 Apr. 249 Seventy-two letters a minute can be shown on the telephote, the signals being clearly visible at a distance of three miles.
1912 Mining & Sci. Press 7 Oct. 232/3 A new apparatus termed the telephote intended for signalling at sea by night has been brought out by an engineer resident at Vienna.
3. A device invented by U.S. doctor Robert d'Unger for the telegraphic transmission of facsimiles of printed or written material. Cf. facsimile telegraph at facsimile n. Compounds b. Obsolete. rare.
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society > communication > telecommunication > communication of visual images > [noun] > apparatus for
telectrograph1857
telelectrograph1857
telectroscope1878
telelectroscope1879
telephotograph1880
telautographa1884
telephote1896
phototelegraph1907
telewriter1907
telecopier1966
fax1983
1896 Cycl. Rev. Current Hist. (U.S.) 6 950 A ‘telephot’..invented by Dr. Robert d'Unger, of Chicago, Ill. [for picture telegraphy].
4. Any of various models of camera invented or developed by Auguste Vautier-Dufour in which a system of interior mirrors allows for the use of a lens with a longer focal length than would otherwise be practical. Also with postmodifying word indicating a particular model of camera. Now rare and historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > [noun] > general types of
box camera1828
daguerreotype1839
view camera1851
pistolgraph1859
pinhole camera1861
panoramic camera1862
pantoscopic camera1865
pistolograph1866
pantoscope1879
detective camera1881
filmograph1881
photographometera1884
photochronograph1887
snap-shooter1890
stand camera1890
tele-objective camera1891
film camera1893
magazine camera1893
panoram1893
telephoto1894
mutograph1897
tele-camera1899
telephote1903
press camera1912
reflex1922
candid camera1929
minicam1935
single-lens reflex1936
plate camera1937
magic eye1938
subminiature1947
miniature1952
all-sky camera1955
microfilmer1959
stereo-camera1959
streak camera1962
gallery camera1964
SLR1964
TLR1965
spy-camera1968
pinhole1976
multi-mode1981
digicam1989
point-and-shoot1991
1903 Sci. Amer. 27 June 486/1 (heading) The ‘Telephot’, a novel apparatus for photographing at great distances.
1903 Sci. Amer. 27 June 486/2 The ‘Téléphot’ may, moreover, be, at a moment's notice, converted into a terrestrial or astronomical telescope.
1973 Pop. Photogr. May 162/3 While it is an unusual camera..an even more interesting form of it is the Stereoscopic Telephot Vega.

Derivatives

telephotic adj. Obsolete relating to or involving any of various (hypothetical) means of transmitting and reproducing images over a distance by converting light into electrical signals; cf. telephoty n.
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society > communication > telecommunication > communication of visual images > [adjective]
telephotic1878
telephotographic1879
telautographic1888
phototelegraphic1907
fax1972
1878 Musical World 20 Apr. 265/1 So much has lately appeared in print on the subject of telephonic, telephotic, and phonographic contrivances.
1889 tr. Jules Verne in Tablet 16 Feb. 249/1 Each reporter..has in front of him a set of commutators which enable him to communicate with any desired telephotic line.
1896 Flammarion in N. Amer. Rev. May 557 We need to be able to enter into telephotic communication with them [sc. inhabitants of Mars].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

telephotev.

Brit. /ˈtɛlᵻfəʊt/, U.S. /ˈtɛləˌfoʊt/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: telephote n.
Etymology: < telephote n.
rare.
1. transitive. To transmit and reproduce (an image) over a distance by converting light into electrical signals. Cf. telephote n. 1. Obsolete.
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society > communication > telecommunication > communication of visual images > [verb (transitive)]
telephote1880
telefax1943
fax1979
1880 Engineering 7 May 361/2 An image of the object to be ‘telephoted’ is focussed on the mirror by means of a lens, and the resulting current started in each [selenium] square of the mirror by the portion of the image falling on it is transmitted by the corresponding wire to the distant station.
2. transitive. To transmit (printed or written material) using facsimile telegraphy.
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1926 Mexia (Texas) Daily News 7 Feb. 2 (caption) This picture which shows a few of the many paying last tribute, was telephoted across the continent.
1968 Amarillo (Texas) Daily News 4 Apr. 45/1 Frank took his picture of the mayor and myself shaking hands over the roses. It was soon telephoted back to Texas and appeared that day on the front page of the newspaper.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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