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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, having, or being a camera lens with a relatively short focal length that permits an angle of view wider than approximately 70°.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (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° or less. Wide-angle lenses may cover as much as 100° and are useful for photographing at short range, but the pictures appear distorted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective photography Of or pertaining to a
short focal length lens that has an angle ofview greater than about 70°; of or pertaining to animage produced with such a lens.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to a fisheye lens
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Examples
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The tall, gangly actor, with a shock of blond hair and what the late longtime AP drama critic Michael Kuchwara called a "wide-angle smile" and "a television face, just right for popular consumption," appeared a success.
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The tall, gangly actor, with a shock of blond hair and what the late longtime AP drama critic Michael Kuchwara called a "wide-angle smile" and "a television face, just right for popular consumption," appeared a success.
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But the airless, almost claustrophobic quality of the apartment is enhanced by Polanski's use of wide-angle lenses.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Carnage Marshall Fine 2011
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The wide-angle camera is great on the freeway and helps make up for some of the Prius' blind spots.
Larry Magid: Pioneer's New After-Market Car Audio and Navigation System Larry Magid 2011
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But the airless, almost claustrophobic quality of the apartment is enhanced by Polanski's use of wide-angle lenses.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Carnage Marshall Fine 2011
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But the airless, almost claustrophobic quality of the apartment is enhanced by Polanski's use of wide-angle lenses.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Carnage Marshall Fine 2011
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If the mummies elicit fascinated gasps, one photograph is bound to make children titter: A section on Hellenic artifacts includes a wide-angle shot of men sprinting across a dusty stadium, buttocks bared, during a 2004 re-enactment of the original, classical Olympic games.
Dig These Ancient Wonders Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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The wide-angle camera is great on the freeway and helps make up for some of the Prius' blind spots.
Larry Magid: Pioneer's New After-Market Car Audio and Navigation System Larry Magid 2011
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We note that 55% of respondents answered correctly that Bloomberg is "a big-city mayor," in the survey that the venerable CBS news show and the magazine conduct each month to give a "wide-angle" view of topics in culture, lifestyle, politics and other subjects.
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The wide-angle camera is great on the freeway and helps make up for some of the Prius' blind spots.
Larry Magid: Pioneer's New After-Market Car Audio and Navigation System Larry Magid 2011
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