TELEPHOTO

telephotograph, telephoto

(noun) a photograph made with a telephoto lens

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

telephoto (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to a lens system used to produce an enlarged image of a distant object.

Noun

telephoto (plural telephotos)

A photograph taken through a telephoto lens.

Source: Wiktionary


Tel`e*pho"to, a.

Definition: Telephotographic; specif., designating a lens consisting of a combination of lenses specially designed to give a large image of a distant object in a camera of relatively short focal length.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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23 November 2024

THEORETICAL

(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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