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ˈtable-top, a.
Also table top, tabletop.
[f. table-top n. (see table n. 22).]
1. Of, pertaining to, or designating photography of subjects which can be contained within the area of a table-top; spec. applied to photography of small-scale models which gives the illusion of a larger subject.
1914S. C. Johnson Saturday with my Camera xliv. 368 We can all enter the lists of table-top photography,..and spend our winter evenings counterfeiting, at leisure, many of the most attractive sights of the world. 1923Kodak Mag. Apr. 58 (heading) Home-made landscapes—a few words on table-top photography. 1935News Chron. Amat. Photogr. xiv. 176 Flashlight has special application to table-top photography, now becoming so popular, as the illumination is under complete control, and all the work can be done in the evening. 1956Focal Encycl. Photogr. 1151/1 There are three different branches of photography open to the photographer who chooses to work within the limits of a table top studio: still life studies, photography of small scale models and creative composition. The last is the true ‘table top photography’. Ibid. 1152/2 Most table-top pictures fail either because they include too many items or because they try to represent the subject accurately and in detail instead of simply suggesting it in a broad effect.
2. That is or can be placed, or that takes place, on a table.
1945F. Brown in Astounding Sci. Fiction Jan. 133/1 There was a boom market in portable and table-top receivers. 1962Guardian 9 July 5/3 He made table top models of the machines. 1971Physics Bull. Sept. 513/2 The total number of installed computers, including table top computers, is expected to be 60 000 in 1975 and 96 500 in 1980. 1979Guardian 31 Oct. 1/8 Fagging..includes..retrieving the little red ball when it goes under chairs during games of table-top cricket. |