What does photo mean?

Definitions for photo
ˈfoʊ toʊpho·to

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word photo.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. photograph, photo, exposure, picture, picnoun

    a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material

Wiktionary

  1. photonoun

    photograph

  2. photoverb

    To take a photograph.

  3. Etymology: Shortened form of photograph

Wikipedia

  1. photo

    A photograph (also known as a photo, image, or picture) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are now created using a smartphone/camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process and practice of creating such images is called photography.

ChatGPT

  1. photo

    A photo, short for photograph, is an image or picture created by capturing light or other forms of electromagnetic radiation, typically through the use of a camera or imaging device. This image can be either printed on a physical medium, like paper, or stored in a digital format. It serves as a visual representation of people, places, events, and objects.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Photonoun

    a contraction of Photograph

Wikidata

  1. Photo

    "Photo" is the second single Ryan Cabrera released from his 2005 studio album You Stand Watching. Lisa Origliasso of The Veronicas, Cabrera's girlfriend at the time, played his love interest in the song's music video. In the Philippines, the song reached #21.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Photo

    fō′tō, n. a colloquial abbreviation of photograph.

British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'photo' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4240

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'photo' in Nouns Frequency: #1788

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of photo in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of photo in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of photo in a Sentence

  1. Desmond Howard:

    Coach Gary Moeller went into Ohio, enemy territory, and snatched up two Heisman Trophy winners in less than 10 years, that's pretty significant and that should be part of Gary Moeller legacy. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Former Michigan football coach Gary Moeller watches the second half of an exhibition NCAA college basketball game against Wayne State in Ann Arbor, Mich., Nov. 4, 2013. Former Michigan, Illinois and Detroit Lions coach Moeller died Monday, July 11, 2022. Gary Moeller was 81. The University of Michigan announced Gary Moeller death, and no cause was provided. ( AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File).

  2. Art Caplan:

    The people who come to the rally, they don't care about them except as a photo-op, because they're going to kill some of them and some of their family and friends.

  3. Eusebius McKaiser:

    I think the desire for the photo to be inauthentic speaks to an underlying belief that the flag is tainted by the association with Dylann Roof, this assumption, in turn, is deeply tragic because it (re)imagines the old South African flag as a symbol of dignity.

  4. Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic:

    They do all my photo shoots now, levi did. He's the DP [Director of Photography], he's the one going out there, we're setting up the GoPros. We're doing the editing. Somaybe I'll have a little McConaughey production crew here, and we'll be a one-stop shop.

  5. Ron Hernandez:

    Just like they would take the opportunity to steal a womans purse or rob a bank or liquor store, who knows what drives that mentality. Its not like they walked in somewhere and engaged in a gunfight. Ron Hernandez speaks to reporters outside St. Francis Medical Center on Monday in Lynwood, Calif., where two Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies are hospitalized after being shot. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis).

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  • Henry Amaechi Chuks
    Henry Amaechi Chuks
    photo collection is a collection pictures.
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