Wirephoto

[ wahyuhr-foh-toh ]

Trademark.

, plural Wire·pho·tos.

1. 1. a device for transmitting photographs over distances by wire.
   2. a photograph so transmitted.

verb (used with object)

, Wire·pho·toed, Wire·pho·to·ing.

1. (lowercase) to transmit (a photograph) by means of a Wirephoto.

wirephoto

/ ˈwaɪəˌfəʊtəʊ /

noun

1. a facsimile of a photograph transmitted electronically via a telephone system

Example Sentences

The photo credit is “Associated Press WIREPHOTO.”

From Washington Post

The photo credit is, “Associated Press wirephoto.”

From Washington Post

The picture is fundamentally like a newspaper wirephoto, made of perhaps a million individual dots, each a different shade of gray, so fine and close together that at a distance the constituent dots are invisible.

From Literature

These images were now rapidly available thanks to wirephoto services, which had debuted in Life in the month that Pollard, Howard, and Smith formed their partnership.

From Literature

In the 16th century Plaza de Armas, an elderly man offers me Associated Press Wirephoto prints from the 1950s along with other relics of Fulgencio Batista's period in power, along with the usual knick-knacks of the revolution.

From US News