PHOTO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does photo mean? 

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

1. a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOTO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

exposure; photo; photograph; pic; picture

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

representation (a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "photo"):

photocopy (a photographic copy of written or printed or graphic work)

scene; shot (a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film)

wedding picture (photographs of bride and groom and their friends taken at their wedding)

vignette (a photograph whose edges shade off gradually)

time exposure (a photograph produced with a relatively long exposure time)

telephotograph (a photograph transmitted and reproduced over a distance)

telephoto; telephotograph (a photograph made with a telephoto lens)

still (a static photograph (especially one taken from a movie and used for advertising purposes))

stereo; stereoscopic photograph; stereoscopic picture (two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together)

spectrogram; spectrograph (a photographic record of a spectrum)

shot; snap; snapshot (an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera)

radiogram; radiograph; shadowgraph; skiagram; skiagraph (a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays))

photomicrograph (a photograph taken with the help of a microscope)

photographic print; print (a printed picture produced from a photographic negative)

stock image; stock photograph (an exisitng photograph licensed for a specific use)

beefcake (a photograph of a muscular man in minimal attire)

mug shot; mugshot (a photograph of someone's face (especially one made for police records))

arial mosaic; mosaic; photomosaic (arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture)

microdot (photograph reduced to the size of a dot (usually for purposes of security))

longshot (a photograph taken from a distance)

hologram; holograph (the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography)

headshot (a photograph of a person's head)

glossy (a photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper)

frame (a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film)

blowup; enlargement; magnification (a photographic print that has been enlarged)

daguerreotype (a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor)

closeup (a photograph taken at close range)

cheesecake (a photograph of an attractive woman in minimal attire)

blueprint (photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.)

black and white; monochrome (a black-and-white photograph or slide)

 Context examples 

And in a 2009 photo, it was measured at 11,130 miles across.

(Jupiter's great red spot is shrinking, NASA)

All data and photos will be made available to the scientific community upon request to the National Astrophysics Laboratory.

(High tech Russian telescope to start operating in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

Thanks to Hubble's exquisite sharpness, the photo unveils the effect of space warping due to gravity.

(NASA’s Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier, NASA)

EXAMPLE(S): paragraph description, digital photo, audio track

(Animal Description, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly captured this photo on Oct. 2, 2015, from the International Space Station and wrote on Twitter, Early morning shot of Hurricane ‎Joaquin‬ from space station before reaching ‪‎Bahamas‬.

(Hurricane Joaquin From the International Space Station, NASA)

An object that includes binary encoding of a picture, photo, image, graphic, sound, or video.

(Binary Object, NCI Thesaurus)

China’s space agency posted a photo online, showing tracks the rover left as it departed from the spacecraft.

(Chinese Rover Making Tracks on Dark Side of the Moon, VOA)

Scientists built a computer program, DeepGestalt, and trained it on a publicly available data set of more than 17,000 photos of patients affected by more than 200 rare disorders.

(Artificial Intelligence Can Be Used to Diagnose Rare Disorders with Just A Picture, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In addition to the photos, the atlas will include written descriptions of affected people and will be searchable by phenotype (a person’s traits), syndrome, continental region of residence and genomic/molecular diagnosis.

(NIH creates Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations, NIH)

Because the central region glows very brightly, the detectors on space telescopes were saturated at the wavelengths SOFIA studied, similar to an overexposed photo.

(SOFIA Reveals How the Swan Nebula Hatched, NASA)