PANORAMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does panorama mean? 

• PANORAMA (noun)
  The noun PANORAMA has 2 senses:

1. the visual percept of a region

2. a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene

  Familiarity information: PANORAMA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PANORAMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The visual percept of a region

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

aspect; panorama; prospect; scene; view; vista

Context example:

the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views

Hypernyms ("panorama" is a kind of...):

visual image; visual percept (a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "panorama"):

background; ground (the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground)

coast (the area within view)

exposure (aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces)

foreground (the part of a scene that is near the viewer)

glimpse (a brief or incomplete view)

middle distance (the part of a scene between the foreground and the background)

side view (a view from the side of something)

tableau (any dramatic scene)

Derivation:

panoramic (as from an altitude or distance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cyclorama; diorama; panorama

Hypernyms ("panorama" is a kind of...):

icon; ikon; image; picture (a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface)

Derivation:

panoramic (as from an altitude or distance)

 Context examples 

I was still drinking in this wonderful panorama when the heavy hand of the Professor fell upon my shoulder.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

NASA's Curiosity rover has captured its highest-resolution panorama yet of the Martian surface.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Its Highest-Resolution Panorama Yet, NASA)

In those scattered circles of dim radiance might be seen the whole busy panorama of life in a wealthy and martial city.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It has been my lot,” he observed, “to meet, in the diversified panorama of human existence, with an occasional oasis, but never with one so green, so gushing, as the present!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His eyes were made for seeing, but up to that moment they had been filled with the ever changing panorama of the world, at which he had been too busy gazing, ever to gaze at himself.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Both panoramas showcase "Glen Torridon," a region on the side of Mount Sharp that Curiosity is exploring.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Its Highest-Resolution Panorama Yet, NASA)

There I settled into a convenient fork, and, balancing myself securely, I found myself looking down at a most wonderful panorama of this strange country in which we found ourselves.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is the first time during the mission we've dedicated our operations to a stereo 360-degree panorama, said Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity's project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which leads the Curiosity rover mission.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Its Highest-Resolution Panorama Yet, NASA)

The rover's Mast Camera, or Mastcam, used its telephoto lens to produce the panorama; meanwhile, it relied on its medium-angle lens to produce a lower-resolution, nearly 650-million-pixel panorama that includes the rover's deck and robotic arm.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Its Highest-Resolution Panorama Yet, NASA)