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PRONUNCIATION OF WIREPHOTO

wirephoto  [ˈwaɪəˌfəʊtəʊ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WIREPHOTO

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Wirephoto is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WIREPHOTO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

wirephoto

Wirephoto

Wirephoto or telephotography is the sending of pictures by telegraph or telephone. Western Union transmitted its first halftone photograph in 1921. AT&T followed in 1924, and RCA sent a Radiophoto in 1926. The Associated Press began its Wirephoto service in 1935, and held a trademark on the term AP Wirephoto between 1963 and 2004. The first AP photo sent by wire depicted the crash of a small plane in New York's Adirondack Mountains. Technologically and commercially, the wirephoto was the successor to Ernest A. Hummel's Telediagraph of 1895, which had transmitted electrically scanned schellac-on-foil originals over a dedicated circuit connecting the New York Herald and the Chicago Times Herald, the St. Louis Republic, the Boston Herald, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Édouard Belin's Belinograph of 1913, which scanned using a photocell and transmitted over ordinary phone lines, formed the basis for the AT&T Wirephoto service. In Europe, services similar to a wirephoto were called a Belino. The first wirephoto systems were slow and did not reproduce well. In 1929, Dr.

Definition of wirephoto in the English dictionary

The definition of wirephoto in the dictionary is a facsimile of a photograph transmitted electronically via a telephone system.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WIREPHOTO


Kioto
kɪˈəʊtəʊ
koto
ˈkəʊtəʊ
Kumamoto
ˌkʊməˈməʊtəʊ
Kyoto
kɪˈəʊtəʊ
minimoto
ˈmɪnɪˌməʊtəʊ
photo
ˈfəʊtəʊ
putto
ˈpʊtəʊ
radiophoto
ˌraɪdɪəʊˈfəʊtəʊ
roto
ˈrəʊtəʊ
Saulteaux
ˈsəʊtəʊ
telephoto
ˌtelɪˈfəʊtəʊ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WIREPHOTO

wireless room
wireless sensor network
wireless set
wireless telegraph
wireless telegraphy
wireless telephone
wireless telephony
wirelike
wireman
wiremen
wirepuller
wirepulling
wirer
wiretap
wiretapped
wiretapper
wiretapping
wirewalker
wireway
wirework

WORDS THAT END LIKE WIREPHOTO

con moto
De Soto
ex voto
Fernando De Soto
in toto
Nansei-shoto
passport photo
Sokoto
Soto
supermoto
X-ray photo

Synonyms and antonyms of wirephoto in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «wirephoto» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WIREPHOTO

Find out the translation of wirephoto to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wirephoto from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wirephoto» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

wirephoto
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

wirephoto
570 millions of speakers

English

wirephoto
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

wirephoto
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

wirephoto
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

wirephoto
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

wirephoto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

wirephoto
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

wirephoto
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Fotografi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

wirephoto
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

wirephoto
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

유선 전송
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wirephoto
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

wirephoto
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

wirephoto
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वायरफोटो
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

wirephoto
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

wirephoto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wirephoto
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

wirephoto
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

wirephoto
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

wirephoto
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wirephoto
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

wirephoto
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

wirephoto
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wirephoto

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WIREPHOTO»

The term «wirephoto» is normally little used and occupies the 122.242 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WIREPHOTO» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «wirephoto» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «wirephoto» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wirephoto

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WIREPHOTO»

Discover the use of wirephoto in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wirephoto and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Guide to Sports Photographs
The wirephoto process allowed photographs to be transferred through telephone lines. The process required a large, expensive wirephoto machine both at the source and at the receiving end. The original photograph was placed inside the ...
David Rudd Cycleback, 2008
2
Judging the Authenticity of Photographs
The invention of the wirephoto process eventually led to overnight photograph distribution. The wirephoto process allowed photographs to be transferred through telephone lines. The process required a large, expensive wirephoto machine ...
David Rudd Cycleback, 2007
3
Popular Science
How laser beams paint hi-fi news photos Wirephoto machines send and receive photos over phone lines. At this exhibit, transmitter is left of receiver. WWi Scan lines appear in reproductions of photo sent by conventional Photofax and K300 ...
4
LIFE
Within. tne. Wr'l_. through. iMXaklk. and. Wirephoto. you. SEE. the. news. happen . Engineering Cadettes ^m, nued) Up Weather tOWer on roof of. Serving human progress through Photography an Liiiuugu nic dextrose is the SUGAR your body  ...
5
Maps with the News: The Development of American Journalistic ...
Early AP Wirephoto weather maps emphasized the national pattern of atmospheric pressure. [Source: Syracuse Herald, 3 January 1935, 6. Courtesy of the Onondaga Historical Association, Syracuse, N.Y.] newspapers large enough to afford a ...
Mark Monmonier, 1989
6
Bandwagon Effects in High-technology Industries
This invention enabled the development of wirephoto technology, which was first deployed in 1902. Subsequently, wirephoto technology was widely utilized by newspapers across the globe. The rapid adoption of wirephoto by the newspaper  ...
Jeffrey H. Rohlfs, 2003
7
News Agencies from Pigeon to Internet
The system transmitted pictures from one city to another. But Cooper wanted many cities to receive photos in one transmission, so AP engineers and telephone company operatives went to work. On 1 January 1935 the AP WirePhoto network ...
K. M. Shrivastava, 2007
8
Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, ...
How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather Mark Monmonier. A decade later electronic telecommunications revived the newspaper weather map. On January 1, 1935, the Associated Press inaugurated its Wirephoto ...
Mark Monmonier, 1999
9
From Hiroshima to the Hydrogen Bomb: American Artists ...
Figure 20. Associated Press Wirephoto, “Tokyo: The Bomb-Battered Japanese Capital as it is Today,” New York Times, September 5, 1945, 2. Figure 21. Associated Press Wirephoto, “Scientists at Scene of Atomic Bomb Test”, New York Times, ...
Denise M. Rompilla, 2008
10
The Sweeney 2: The Manhattan File
And up the huge tower of the building to the fifteenth floor, where both police and FBI, as well as other government and military agencies, shared a Wirephoto transmit and reception console. Within fifteen minutes of arriving in the room he had ...
Ian Kennedy Martin

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WIREPHOTO»

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Kent Carter: From Black Sunday to the Dinner Table
"HERE SHE COMES -- This wirephoto, made on a ranch near Boise City in Cimarron county, shows the approach of Sunday's dust storm. The sun had not set ... «NewsOK.com, Apr 15»
2
Celebrating 80 Years of Associated Press' Wirephoto
Exactly 80 years ago today, on Jan. 1, 1935, the Associated Press sent its very first photograph over the organization's brand new Wirephoto service: an aerial ... «TIME, Jan 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Wirephoto [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/wirephoto>. Apr 2024 ».
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