Usually means: Long focal length, magnifies distance.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word telephoto:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. Telephoto, telephoto: Merriam-Webster
  2. telephoto: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. telephoto: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. telephoto: Collins English Dictionary
  5. telephoto: Vocabulary.com
  6. Telephoto, telephoto: Wordnik
  7. telephoto: Wiktionary
  8. Telephoto: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Telephoto: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. telephoto: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. telephoto: Dictionary.com
  12. telephoto: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Telephoto: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. telephoto: Rhymezone
  15. telephoto: FreeDictionary.org
  16. telephoto: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. telephoto: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. telephoto: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. telephoto: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. telephoto: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)

(Note: See telephotos as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (telephoto)

adjective:  Of or pertaining to a lens system used to produce an enlarged image of a distant object.
noun:  A photograph taken through a telephoto lens.
verb:  Synonym of telephotograph

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