Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The width-to-height ratio of a film or television image.
- n. The span-to-mean-chord ratio of an airfoil.
Wiktionary
- n. The ratio of an object's longest dimension to its next-longest dimension.
- n. The ratio of width to height in a flat surface or 2-dimensional abstract construction, such as an image, character, or pixel. 4:3 (or 1.33:1) is the standard ratio for NTSC video. 1.85:1 and 2.35:1 are the most common aspect ratios for motion pictures.
GNU Webster's 1913
- The ratio of the long to the short side of an aëroplane, aërocurve, or wing.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the ratio of the width to the height of a tv picture
Examples
“The aspect ratio 16:9 was decided upon, compatible with widescreen movies shot in CinemaScope, Panavision or other anamorphic squeezed by the camera lens, then unsqueezed by the projector lens systems.”
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Film and Cinematography
A list of terms used in cinematography
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hernesheir (n): in filmography, the proportions of the frame. In 16mm and 35mm the camera photographs a slightly square image, with an aspect ratio of 1.33 to 1. In 35mm the image is usually shot with the Academy Aperture and then masked in the projector to produce a wider image: 1.85 in the U.S. and 1.66 in Europe. Jan 17, 2009