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wirephoto orig. U.S.|ˈwaɪəfəʊtəʊ|
Also with hyphen and as two words.
[f. wire n. + photo.]
A facsimile process for transmitting pictures over telephone lines; also (colloq.), a photograph transmitted by this means.
1939Webster Add., Wirephoto. 1940Chicago Daily Tribune 11 May 1/3 All these pictures were sent..by radio and wirephoto. 1964M. McLuhan Understanding Media ii. xx. 203 The newspaper mesh of dots that is called ‘wirephoto’. 1972T. Ardies This Suitcase xvii. 189 A picture of the teenaged Helmut Stern..came in last night via wirephoto. 1973C. Sagan Cosmic Connection (1974) xv. 109 The television pictures from Mariner 9 were radioed from Mars to Earth in much the same way that a newsprint wire-photo is transmitted on Earth. 1981‘D. Shannon’ Murder Most Strange vii. 147 The wire photo came in..and Higgins took it to show the Ortiz girl and she identified it.
So wire-photograph.
1962Listener 12 July 57/1 Cartoonists in the United States rely for day-to-day material on newspaper morgues and wire-photographs. 1968J. Sangster Touchfeather ix. 92 ‘Come and look at this.’ The ‘this’ was a wire photograph... The transmission hadn't been up to much. |