Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
TELEPHOTOGRAPHY
telephotography
(noun) photography using a telephoto lens
telephotography
(noun) transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
telephotography (uncountable)
(photography) Photography of distant subjects using a telephoto lens.
(dated) The transmission of images over a distance, especially by facsimile.
Anagrams
• phototelegraphy
Source: Wiktionary
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.
2. 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. Less properly, phototelegraphy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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