tele-photos

Tel·e·pho·to

[tel-uh-foh-toh]
Trademark.
1.
a brand of apparatus for electrical transmission of photographs.
2.
a photograph transmitted by this apparatus.
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telephoto
1898, shortened form of telephotographic (1892), from tele- + photographic.
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