ALL meanings of teleconverter
tel·e·con·vert·er
T t - noun teleconverter a person or thing that converts. 1
- noun teleconverter Electricity. a device that converts alternating current to direct current or vice versa. Compare inverter, synchronous converter. 1
- noun teleconverter Metallurgy. a chamber or vessel through which an oxidizing blast of air is forced, as in making steel by the Bessemer process. 1
- noun teleconverter Television. decoder (def 5). 1
- noun teleconverter Radio and Television. an auxiliary device that permits a receiver to pick up frequencies or channels for which it was not originally designed. 1
- noun teleconverter Physics. a reactor for converting one kind of fuel into another kind. 1
- noun teleconverter a person who is engaged in converting textile fabrics, especially cotton cloths, from the raw state into the finished product ready for the market by bleaching, dyeing, etc. 1
- noun teleconverter Also called converter lens. Photography. an additional lens attached to a lens in use on a camera to alter focal length, mounted in front of a lens to produce a wide-angle effect (wide-angle converter) or between the lens and the camera body to produce a telephoto effect (teleconverter or extender) 1
- noun teleconverter a device for increasing the focal length of a lens 0