TELEPHOTOGRAPHY

add. ·noun less properly, phototelegraphy.

2. telephotography ·add. ·noun art or process of electrically transmitting and reproducing photographic or other pictures at a distance by methods similar to those used in electric telegraphy.

3. telephotography ·add. ·noun 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.