TELEPHOTO LENS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telephoto lens mean? 

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

1. a camera lens that magnifies the image

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELEPHOTO LENS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A camera lens that magnifies the image

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

telephoto lens; zoom lens

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

camera lens; optical lens (a lens that focuses the image in a camera)

 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)