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WIDE-ANGLE LENS
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I. (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
Synonyms:
fisheye lens; wide-angle lens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("wide-angle lens" is a kind of...):
camera lens; optical lens (a lens that focuses the image in a camera)