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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

Additional info about word: TELEPHOTOGRAPHY

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.

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• MOUNTABLE
  Such as can be mounted.
• MAGNIFICENTLY
  In a Magnificent manner.
• MOUNTING
  1. The act of one that mounts. 2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.
• MOUNTAINOUS
  1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.
• MOUNTAINOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being mountainous.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• DISTANT
  stand apart, be separate or distant; dis- + stare to stand. See 1. Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. One board had two tenons, equally distant. Ex. xxxvi. 22. Diana's temple is not distant far. Shak. 2. Far separated;
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• CAMERADE
  See COMRADE,
• PROVIDENCE
  A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction. He that hath a numerous family, and many to provide for, needs a greater providence of God. Jer. Taylor. 4. Prudence in
• MOUNTANT
  Raised; high.
• MAGNIFIC; MAGNIFICAL
  Grand; splendid; illustrious; magnificent. 1 Chron. xxii. 5. "Thy magnific deeds." Milton. -- Mag*nif"ic*al*ly, adv. (more info) facere to make: cf. F. magnifique. See Magnitude, Fact. and cf.
• CAMERA OBSCURA
  An apparatus in which the image of an external object or objects is, by means of lenses. thrown upon a sensitized plate or surface placed at the back or an extensible darkened box or chamber variously modifled; -- commonly called simply the camera.
• PROVIDORE
  One who makes provision; a purveyor. De Foe.
• ORDINARY
  1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. "The ordinary forms of law." Addison. 2. Common; customary; usual. Shak. Method is not less reguisite in ordinary conversation that in writing. Addison. 3. Of common rank, quality,
• DISTANTIAL
  Distant. More distantial from the eye. W. Montagu.
• TELEPHOTOGRAPH
  A photograph, image, or impression, reproduced by or taken with a telephotographic apparatus.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• LITHOPHOTOGRAPHY
  See PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY
• DEMOUNT
  To dismount.
• MAGAZINE CAMERA
  A camera in which a number of plates can be exposed without reloading.
• INSURMOUNTABILITY
  The state or quality of being insurmountable.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• COMPOSSIBLE
  Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
• SUBORDINARY
  One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary. Note: Different writers name different bearings as subordinaries, but the bar, bend, sinister, pile, inescutcheon bordure, gyron, and quarter, are always
• EQUIDISTANT
  Being at an equal distance from the same point or thing. -- E`qui*dis"tant*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.