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telezoom

telezoom noun: a zoom lens that adjusts through telephoto lengths.

Noun

telezoom (plural telezooms)

  1. A zoom lens that adjusts through telephoto lengths.
    • A 75-205mm telezoom, say, can replace at least two lenses in your camera bag, and in the case of Soligor or Quantaray lenses, can be had for under $250.1978 December, Popular Science, volume 213, number 6, page 75
    • It's unusually compact for a 3.6X telezoom.2005 September, Popular Photography, volume 69, number 9, page 61

Forms of telezoom

pluraltelezooms

Origin of telezoom

From tele- + zoom.

Questions about telezoom

What does telezoom mean?
Telezoom means a zoom lens that adjusts through telephoto lengths.
What part of speech is telezoom?
Telezoom is a noun.
What is the plural of telezoom?
The plural of telezoom is telezooms.

Words near telezoom in the dictionary

  1. telexed
  2. telexes
  3. telexing
  4. telextender
  5. telextenders
  6. telezoom
  7. telezooms
  8. Telfair
  9. Telfair County
  10. telfairic acid
  11. Telfairs

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