Tele-

(before a vowel properly tel-, but more often in the full form), repr. Gr. τηλε, combining form of τῆλε afar, far off; used in numerous (chiefly recent) scientific and technical terms, mostly denoting or connected with special appliances or methods for operating over long distances; also in several terms connected with psychical research, denoting actions or impressions produced at a distance from the exciting cause, independently of the normal means of communication. (The second element is properly and usually from Greek, exceptionally from Latin or English.) The earlier and more important of these words will be found in their alphabetical places; others follow here.

Telacoustic a., Psychics [ACOUSTIC], pertaining to or involving the perception of a sound beyond or apart from the possibility of ordinary hearing (cf. teloptic below). Teleanemograph, ‘an anemograph that records at a distance by means of electricity’ (Cent. Dict., 1891). Telebarograph, ‘a barograph that records at a distance by means of electricity’ (ibid.). Telebarometer, ‘a barometer that registers its indications at a distance by means of electric apparatus’ (ibid.). Telecentric a., Optics, applied to a lens system of which the aperture or stop is at the principal focus. Telechirograph [Gr. χεἰρ hand], a form of TELAUTOGRAPH [cf. definition of TELAUTOGRAPH]. Telecryptograph, a form of printing telegraph adopted for secret or private communication. Telectrograph, Telectroscope: see telelectro-. Telehydrobarometer [Gr. ὔδωρ water: see BAROMETER], an instrument for recording electrically at a distance the pressure of a head of water or other liquid. Teleiconograph [Gr. εἰκών image: see -GRAPH], an apparatus consisting of a telescope combined with a camera lucida, by which images of distant objects may be cast upon paper and traced. Telekin [mod., f. Gr. κιν-εῖν to move], a device for the electric control of machinery from a distance. ǁ Telekinesis, Psychics [mod.L., f. Gr. κίνησις motion], movement of or in a body alleged to occur at a distance from, and without material connection with, the motive cause or agent; hence Telekinetic a., belonging to telekinesis. Telelectric a., producing mechanical motions or effects at a distance by electrical means. Telelectrograph, shortened telectrograph: cf. ELECTROGRAPH, an apparatus for producing at the receiving end a copy of a photograph or print at the transmitting end, by means of electric telegraphy. Telelectroscope, shortened telectroscope [cf. prec. and -SCOPE], an apparatus for reproducing at a distance a visual image, as that in a camera obscura, by means of electric telegraphy. Telemanometer, a manometer that registers at a distance by means of electricity. Telemechanics, the art of transmitting power to a distance, esp. by etherial vibrations as in wireless telegraphy; so Telemechanism. Telemetacarpal a., Comp. Anat., having vestiges only of the distal portion of the first and fifth metarcarpals, as in one group of the Cervidæ. Telemeteorograph, a meteorograph that records electrically at a distance; a combination of telethermograph, telebarograph, and teleanemograph; hence Telemeteorographic a., Telemeteorography. Telemicroscope, an optical instrument combining the functions of a telescope and a microscope; e.g., in enlarging a telescopic image or in projecting a microscopic image to a distance (e.g., upon a screen). Telemotor, an apparatus for transmitting motive power to a distance; esp. a device for steering a ship from some part distant from the tiller, by means of hydraulic or pneumatic pressure, etc. Tele-negative a. in telenegative lens, the negative element in a telephotographic lens: cf. TELEPHOTOGRAPHIC a.², quot. 1892³. Telengyscope, incorrectly -engi- [see ENGYSCOPE], an optical instrument combining the powers of a telescope and microscope (Cent. Dict., 1891). Tele-objective a., having an object-glass adapted to photographing distant objects; as a tele-objective camera; sb. (see quot.) Teleplastic a., Psychics [PLASTIC; after telepathy, etc.]: see quot. 1890. Telepolariscope, an optical instrument consisting of a telescope combined with a polariscope. Telepositive a., Optics: see quot. Teleradiophone, a radiophone producing sounds at a distance by means of an electric current as in telegraphy. Telergy, Psychics [after energy], the supposed force operating in telepathy, regarded as correlated with the various forms of physical energy, or as directly affecting the brain or organism of the percipient; so Telergically adv., by means of telergy. Teleseism [SEISM], a distant or remote earth-tremor as recorded on a seismograph. Teleseme [Gr. σῆμα sign], an electric signalling apparatus used in hotels, etc., fitted with an indicator that shows the article or service required. Telesomatic a., Psychics [Gr. σῶμα body]: see teleplastic, quot. 1890. Telespectroscope, a combination of a telescope and a spectroscope, for spectroscopic observations of the heavenly bodies. Telestereoscope, an instrument with two pairs of mirrors so arranged that distant objects viewed by means of it appear to stand out in relief, as in a stereoscope. Telethermograph, a thermograph that records electrically at a distance; a self-registering telethermometer; hence Telethermogram. Telethermometer, a thermometer furnished with an apparatus that electrically exhibits its indications at a distance; hence Telethermometry, the use of a telethermometer. Teletopometer [Gr. τόπος place: see -METER], name for a special form of telemeter (TELEMETER 1). Teletype, a type-printing telegraph; hence Teletypic a.; Teletypograph, a form of machine telegraph that records its message by perforating a tape that sets in motion a typesetting machine. Television, vision of a distant object or scene by means of an apparatus that electrically reproduces an image of it at the receiving end: cf. TELEPHOTE. Telewriter, an instrument that electrically reproduces in facsimile a written message; a form of TELAUTOGRAPH; hence Telewrite v. (nonce-wd.), to send a message by a telewriter. Teloptic a., Psychics [OPTIC], pertaining to or involving the perception as if by sight of an object beyond or apart from the possibility of ordinary vision (cf. telacoustic above); so Telosmic a. [Gr. ὀσμή smell], involving the perception of a smell in a similar way.

1893.  *Telacoustic [see teleplastic].

1903.  Electr. Wld. & Engineer, 20 June, 1055. *Telechirograph.

1904.  Athenæum, 5 Nov., 628/3. The device for secret telegraphy or *telecryptograph of Messrs. Siemens and Halske also deserves notice.

1909.  Daily Mirror, 13 Aug., 14/2. The pictures were wired from Manchester to London last night in six minutes by the Thorne-Baker *telectrograph.

1884.  Knight, Dict. Mech., Supp., *Telectroscope, an apparatus for reproducing by telegraph the images obtained in the camera obscura … based on the property possessed by selenium of offering a variable and very sensitive electrical resistance according to the different gradations of light.

1891.  Cent. Dict., *Telehydrobarometer.

1877.  Knight, Dict. Mech., *Teleiconograph.

1905.  Sci. Amer., Suppl., 6 May, 24539. The inventor distinguishes between a simple *telekin, wherein only a single motion is considered, and a multiple telekin, which permits of a complexity of motions.

1890.  Myers, in Proc. Soc. Psych. Research, Dec., 668. Extramediumistic operations, as thought-transference, telepathy, *telekinesis (Fernwirkung), or movements of objects without contact. Ibid., 669. For the alleged movements without contact … M. Aksakor’s new word *‘telekinetic’ seems to me the best attainable.

1905.  Sat. Rev., 19 Aug., 250. Of the other phenomena … that of telekinesis, or movement of objects without material contact.

1909.  Cent. Dict., Suppl., s.v., An organ with a *telelectric attachment.

1898.  Daily News, 10 March, 6/3. It is called the *‘Telelectroscope,’ because it renders objects visible in their natural colours at a distant place by means of electricity. Ibid. If we had had the ‘Telelectroscope’ in operation some time ago, we might have gone into a theatre in London and witnessed the eclipse of the sun in India for ourselves.

1891.  Cent. Dict., *Telemanometer.

1909.  Athenæum, 6 March, 293/1. The researches now being made into what is called *tele-mechanics, or the art of transmitting power to a distance by waves in the ether and without wires. Ibid. (1907), 29 June, 798/3. The phenomena … of *tele-mechanism, or the operation of machines at a distance.

1878.  Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 887. Plesiometacarpal and *telemetacarpal limb—characters … closely corresponding with the distribution of the Cervidæ.

1881.  Nature, 14 April, 564/2. On March 26 … There were repeated at the Brussels Observatory experiments with Van Rysselberghes’ *telemeteorograph, which prove that the registration of the meteorological elements … may be made automatically at very great distances. Ibid. The author explained to the Minister a plan of International Telemeteorography.

1883.  Science, I. 88. The establishment of an international *telemeteorographic system.

1860.  Mayne, Expos. Lex., Teleomicroscopium,… an instrument for enlarging or increasing the forms of more remote or indistinct objects: a *teleomicroscope [sic].

1895.  Arena (Boston), App. 13. Prof. D. S. Holman, the celebrated microscopist…. His lectures … are illustrated by the tele-microscope, which projects upon a screen nearly all conceivable experiments.

1897.  Tit-Bits, 1 Dec., 207/3. A 10 in. telescope can, by means of the new telemicroscope be made to magnify 25000 diameters.

1890.  Nature, 3 April, 516/2. The steering motor is placed directly on the quadrant of the tiller, and is actuated from the bridge by means of what the author describes as a *telemotor.

1897.  Daily News, 20 Sept., 3/1. A new steam steering engine has been added, having a telemotor on Messrs. Brown Bros.’ system.

1905.  *Tele-negative [see tele-positive].

1902.  Mann, etc., trans. P. Drude’s The. Optics, I. v. 94. A … *teleobjective, which consists of a combination of a convergent and a divergent system placed at a distance apart.

1890.  Myers, in Proc. Soc. Psych. Research, Dec., 669. M. Aksakof uses the term ‘telesomatic’ for the phenomena of so-called ‘materialisation.’… It would be better, I think, to give the name *teleplastic to all this class of alleged phenomena.

1893.  Chicago Advance, 31 Aug. Certain teleplastic, telacoustic, teloptic, and telosmic occurrences.

1878.  Lockyer, Stargazing, 441. The *Telepolariscope.

1905.  Sci. Amer., Suppl., 30 Sept., 24861. This lens, called tele-negative, need not be connected permanently with the ordinary objective (which is called *tele-positive), a loose connection by means of a removable short tube being quite sufficient.

1881.  Nature, 13 Oct., 576/2. Multiple inverse electric *teleradiophone, by M. Mercadier.

1908.  Sir O. Lodge, in Hibbert Jrnl., April, 575. A foreign intelligence, acting either telepathically through the mind or *telergically by a more direct process straight on the brain.

1884.  Gurney & Myers, in 19th Cent., May, 814. Unless some such relation [of telepathy to space and to matter] can be demonstrated we cannot reasonably speak of a psychical *telergy—an action of mind on mind at a distance—as correlated with any energy which we have learnt to measure.

1903.  Myers, Hum. Personality, I. Gloss., Telergy.

1891.  Cent. Dict., *Teleseme.

1899.  Westm. Gaz., 8 June, 10/2. The bedrooms are fitted with a model kind of call, the Teleseme—a dumb waiter.

1901.  F. Harrison, in 19th Cent., June, 916. Life in the States is one perpetual whirl of telephones, telesemes, phonographs, electric bells, etc.

1890.  *Telesomatic [see teleplastic above].

1871.  trans. Schellen’s Spectr. Anal., liii. 247. Young’s *telespectroscope.

1882.  Young, Sun, iii. 77. The combined instrument is then often called a tele-spectroscope.

1864.  Webster, *Telestereoscope, a stereoscope adapted to view distant natural objects or landscapes; a telescopic stereoscope.

1887.  Encycl. Brit., XXII. 541/1. Von Helmholtz invented the Telestereoscope, an instrument which places as it were the point of view of both eyes wide apart.

1891.  Cent. Dict., *Telethermograph … *Telethermometer … *Telethermometry. Ibid. *Teletopometer, a telemeter in which two telescopes are used.

1905.  Daily Chron., 9 Feb., 3/6. To the instrument, known as the teletopometer, a telescope is fixed, in which appear two pictures of the distant object. One picture is stationary, while the other moves and is brought to cover the first. A scale attached … indicates at once the distance of the object.

1909.  Athenæum, 25 Sept., 367/3. The efforts made by Prof. Rukmer of Berlin to realize *‘television.’

1908.  Times, 5 Dec., 16/3. An apparatus called a *‘telewriter’ for electrically reproducing at a distance handwriting, drawings [etc.].

1908.  Daily Chron., 21 Dec. The Lord Mayor, *‘telewriting’ to the Lord Mayor of Manchester, tendered his cordial greetings to him and his fellow-citizens from the City of London and himself. Ibid. (1909), 13 Jan., 6/1. Telewriters with telephones attached will be put in in the case of a limited number of original subscribers without any rental charges or other initial expenses.

1893.  *Teloptic, *Telosmic [see teloplastic above].