Author:
Laura McKinney
Date Of Creation:
5 August 2021
Update Date:
12 May 2024
Content
- Meanings of the prefix tele-
- Writing the prefix tele- with words beginning with a vowel E
- Examples of words with the prefix tele-
The prefix TV-, of Greek origin, means "distance" or "remoteness". It can also be related to television, as a mass communication medium. For example: TVnovel, TVpatia.
- See also: Prefixes and suffixes
Meanings of the prefix tele-
- Distance from. For example: TVtransporter, telepathy.
- Related to television. For example: TVpurchase,TVmarketing.
Writing the prefix tele- with words beginning with a vowel E
When the prefix TV- joins a word that begins with the vowel "e", it is not duplicated as it happens with other prefixes. Rather, an "e" is deleted. For example: telespectator (teleespectator It is incorrect).
Examples of words with the prefix tele-
- Cable cars/ Cableway: Closed cabins that connect two points by means of a cabling system through which these cabins travel.
- Comedy: Comedy that can be seen on television.
- Teleshopping: Purchase made through the TV screen with an advertisement.
- Telecommunication: All types of communication that have as an intermediary a mass media such as television, radio, internet, newspapers, etc.
- Teleconference: Conference that is dictated by means of an electronic communication system and allows remote meetings without the need to go to other meeting points.
- Newscast: Program with journalistic or informative characteristics that is broadcast on television.
- Broadcasting: Broadcast that is carried out on television.
- Remote control: Control a device using the remote control.
- Tele-education/ teleteaching: Type of self-taught education that is imparted through a mass media, generally through the Internet or television.
- Telephone: Communication system through the voice that unites two people who are at a considerable distance through a conversation.
- Remote management: Procedures control management carried out remotely.
- Telegraph: Communication system that allows transmission through impulses.
- Telemarketing: Type of telephone sale. Here the prefix is associated with the telephone and not with television.
- Telemedicine: Type of medicine that is practiced at a distance.
- Soap opera: Type of program that is broadcast on television.
- Teleoperator: Type of company that offers telephone services.
- Telepathy: Transmission of thoughts from one person to another without the use of the senses.
- Telescope: Instrument used to observe objects that are at a great distance.
- Teleshow: Type of show or spectacle that takes place on television.
- Viewer: Viewer of a television program.
- Telecommuting: Type of work that is managed outside the office in the home environment.
- Teleportation: Process by which objects can be moved from one distance to another at the same time.
- Telesales: Sale that is made through television.
- Television: System for the transmission of images and sounds through which programs, series, films, etc. are taught.
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