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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Telephotography \Tel`e*pho*tog"ra*phy\, n.
1. The photography of distant objects in more enlarged form
than is possible by the ordinary means, usually by a
camera provided with a {telephoto lens} or mounted in
place of the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or
a magnified image falls on the sensitive plate.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. Art or process of electrically transmitting and
reproducing photographic or other pictures at a distance,
especially by methods similar to those used in electric
telegraphy.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. Less properly, phototelegraphy.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]