TELEPHOTO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telephoto mean? 

• TELEPHOTO (noun)
  The noun TELEPHOTO has 1 sense:

1. a photograph made with a telephoto lens

  Familiarity information: TELEPHOTO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELEPHOTO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A photograph made with a telephoto lens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

telephoto; telephotograph

Hypernyms ("telephoto" is a kind of...):

exposure; photo; photograph; pic; picture (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format)

 Context examples 

The rover's Mast Camera, or Mastcam, used its telephoto lens to produce the panorama; meanwhile, it relied on its medium-angle lens to produce a lower-resolution, nearly 650-million-pixel panorama that includes the rover's deck and robotic arm.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Its Highest-Resolution Panorama Yet, NASA)