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)

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