Defn: A poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf. Acrostic.
TELETHERMOGRAPH Tel`e*ther"mo*graph, n. [Gr. th e far + thermo- + -graph.] (Physics) (a) A record of fluctuations of temperature made automatically at a distant station. (b) An instrument, usually electrical, making such records.
TELETHERMOMETER
Tel`e*ther*mom"e*ter, n. Etym: [Gr. thermometer.] (Physics)
Defn: An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.
TELEUTOSPORE
Te*leu"to*spore, n. Etym: [Gr. spore.] (Bot.)
Defn: The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order
Uredinales), produced in late summer. See Illust. of Uredospore.
TELFORD
Tel"ford, a. [After Thomas Telford, a Scotch road engineer.]
Defn: Designating, or pert. to, a road pavement having a surface of small stone rolled hard and smooth, distinguished from macadam road by its firm foundation of large stones with fragments of stone wedged tightly, in the interstices; as, telford pavement, road, etc.
TELFORDIZE
Tel"ford*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Telfordized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Telfordizing.]
Defn: To furnish (a road) with a telford pavement.