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wide-angle
[ wahyd-ang-guhl ]
adjective
- of or relating to a lens having a relatively wide angle of view, generally 45° or more, and a focal length of less than 50 millimeters.
- employing, or made with, a wide-angle lens:
a wide-angle camera; a wide-angle shot.
Word History and Origins
Origin of wide-angle1
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Example Sentences
And yet he takes a wide-angle view, noting that at his age he’s lived through numerous cultural ebbs and flows.
“The classic wide-angle view!” he says with a grin, proudly showing off the stream of Becca’s decaying cadaver glowing from his phone screen.
A telephoto lens offers higher resolution, while a wide-angle lens allows a larger field of view.
The researchers are now designing metalenses with complex functionalities -- such as color or wide-angle imaging -- and developing neural network methods for enhancing the imaging quality of these advanced metalenses.
Each observatory used an array of wide-angle cameras to measure the brightness of thousands of individual stars across the entire sky.
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