Wide-angle

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wide-angle \Wide"-an`gle\, a. (Photog. & Optics)
     Having or covering an angle wider than the ordinary; --
     applied to certain lenses of relatively short focus. Lenses
     for ordinary purposes have an angle of 50[deg] or less.
     Wide-angle lenses may cover as much as 100[deg] and are
     useful for photographing at short range, but the pictures


     appear distorted.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wide-angle
       adj : of or relating to a fisheye lens [syn: {fisheye}]