The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
a. (context photography English) Of or pertaining to a short focal length lens that has an angle of view greater than about 70°; of or pertaining to an image produced with such a lens.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to a fisheye lens [syn: fisheye]
Usage examples of "wide-angle".
The high-energy proton spectrpmetry clusters flunked out, too, as did the gravimetric distortion mapping scanner, the fixed angle gamma frequency counter, the wide-angle EM radiation imaging scanner, the quark population analysis counter, the Z-range particulate spectrometry sensor, the low-frequency EM flux sensor, the localized subspace field stress sensor, the parametric subspace field stress sensor, the hydrogen-filter subspace flux scanner, the linear calibration subspace flux sensor, the variable band optical imagining cluster, the virtual aperture graviton flux spectrometer, the high-resolution graviton flux spectrometer, the very low energy graviton spin pola-rimeter, the passive imaging gamma interferometry sensor, the low-level imagining sensor, the virtual particle mapping camera, and even the life-form analysis instrument counter.
He twiddled the autozoom on his electrobinoculars, to flip the enhanced image back and forth between a wide-angle overview and tightly focused close-ups of individual plants.
Iwakuni was a major industrial center, but the wide-angle infrared cams transformed it into something ghostly and medieval, reminding her of the fantasy novels she’.
No, Bass, the inventor was a man named James Rednick, and the weapons came in a number of sizes and potential intensities, from tiny, handheld, purely defensive units up to big, wide-angle weapons used for crowd control and requiring three or four men to operate properly.
He could see nothing at first, given the Kite's limited field of view-one disadvantage of using a telescopic sight instead of wide-angle binoculars-but a quick pan picked up the image of a light metal frame containing a sitting figure with legs outstretched as if driving a go-cart.
But when he emerged, a relatively crisp image appeared, Feaver and Skolnick each slightly distorted by the wide-angle lens.
As he drifted below the tail, so close now that even the wide-angle lens could take in only a third of the flukes, Clay noticed some unusual markings on the tail.
Morin did as he was bid, switching to a wide-angle lens which created the illusion of backing away from the galleon for an overall view of the wreckage rather than a tight close-up of the cannon port.
I don't know, it's hard to piece together now, we were so nervous, it was like everything was under a wide-angle lens, you could see the whole store from wherever you stood, then somebody moved and the gun popped and the store guy was stone dead in an instant.
It had been taken by somebody who had squatted down in front of and to the left of the jeep, with wide-angle lens.
He was directly above the main doors that led out towards the horseshoe drive, a wide-angle lens swallowing up the tapering hub of the Pacific Vista, a note in the back of his mind telling him to get back here tomorrow with a fish-eye.
A head-on angle of the cockpit crew, slightly fish-eye from a wide-angle lens.
The camera was mounted in the corner and fitted with a wide-angle lens to cover anything that happened without having to be adjusted.
Facing the black-glass walls of the city hall, I set up my camera, using the wide-angle lens, and focused.
Sam switched back to wide-angle lenses and stared toward the side.