WIDE-ANGLE LENS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wide-angle lens mean? 

• WIDE-ANGLE LENS (noun)
  The noun WIDE-ANGLE LENS has 1 sense:

1. a camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length); produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery

  Familiarity information: WIDE-ANGLE LENS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WIDE-ANGLE LENS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length); produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

fisheye lens; wide-angle lens

Hypernyms ("wide-angle lens" is a kind of...):

camera lens; optical lens (a lens that focuses the image in a camera)