telephoto lens

1. 1.

   a camera lens that magnifies the image

   Synonymszoom lens

   Broadercamera lens

Questions about telephoto lens

What does telephoto lens mean?

telephoto lens means "a camera lens that magnifies the image".

What is another word for telephoto lens?

Close synonyms include zoom lens. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is telephoto lens a common word?

telephoto lens is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.