Tel`-el-A*mar"na (?), n. [Ar., hill of Amarna.] A station on the Nile, midway between Thebes and Memphis, forming the site of the capital of Amenophis IV., whose archive chamber was discovered there in 1887. A collection of tablets (called the Tel-el-Amarna, or the Amarna, tablets) was found here, forming the Asiatic correspondence (Tel-el-Amarna letters) of Amenophis IV. and his father, Amenophis III., written in cuneiform characters. It is an important source of our knowledge of Asia from about 1400 to 1370 b. c..
Tel`e*lec"tric (?), a. [Gr. th^le far + electric.] (Elec.) Of or pertaining to transmission, as of music, to a distance by electricity.
Tel`e*lec"tro*scope (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + electro- + -scope.] Any apparatus for making distant objects visible by the aid of electric transmission.
Tel`e*me*chan"ic (?), a. [Gr. th^le far + mechanic.] Designating, or pert. to, any device for operating mechanisms at a distance. -- Tel`e*mech"a*nism (#), n.
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Tel`e*me`te*or"o*graph (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + meteorograph.] Any apparatus recording meteorological phenomena at a distance from the measuring apparatus, as by electricity or by compressed air; esp., an apparatus recording conditions at many distant stations at a central office. -- Tel`e*me`te*or*o*graph"ic (#), a.
Te*lem"e*ter, n. An apparatus for recording at a distant station the indications of physical instruments such as the thermometer, galvanometer, etc.
Tel`e*met"ro*graph (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + me`tron measure + -graph.] A combination of the camera lucida and telescope for drawing and measuring distant objects. -- Tel`e*me*trog"ra*phy (#), n. -- Tel`e*met`ro*graph"ic (#), a.
Tel`e*mo"tor (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + motor.] (Naut.) A hydraulic device by which the movement of the wheel on the bridge operates the steering gear at the stern.
Tel*en"er*gy (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + energy.] Display of force or energy at a distance, or without contact; -- applied to mediumistic phenomena. -- Tel`en*er"gic (#), a.
Te*len"gi*scope (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + &?; near + -scope.] (Optics) An instrument of such focal length that it may be used as an observing telescope for objects close at hand or as a long-focused microscope.
Tel`e*phone ex*change". A central office in which the wires of telephones may be connected to permit conversation.
Tel"e*phote (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + fw^s, fwto`s, light.] A telelectric apparatus for producing images of visible objects at a distance.
Tel`e*pho"to (?), a. Telephotographic; specif., designating a lens consisting of a combination of lenses specially designed to give a large image of a distant object in a camera of relatively short focal length.
Tel`e*pho"to*graph (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + photograph.] A photograph, image, or impression, reproduced by or taken with a telephotographic apparatus.
Tel`e*pho`to*graph"ic (?), a. Designating, or pertaining to, the process of telephotography.
Tel`e*pho*tog"ra*phy (?), n. 1. The photography of distant objects in more enlarged form than is possible by the ordinary means, usually by a camera provided with a telephoto lens or mounted in place of the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a magnified image falls on the sensitive plate.
2. Art or process of electrically transmitting and reproducing photographic or other pictures at a distance by methods similar to those used in electric telegraphy.