wide-angle

[ wahyd-ang-guhl ]

adjectivePhotography.

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.

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Origin of wide-angle

First recorded in 1875–80

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Ginny and I were offered the opportunity to develop a project for Wide Angle called Women, War, and Peace.
A Brilliant Film About the Women Who Saved Liberia | Rachel Syme | November 15, 2008 | THE DAILY BEAST
The wide angle between the two main artes involves perhaps too long a face; a further support is added.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 | Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
We have the ones we took coming in; what we want is a wide-angle shot.
Islands of Space | John W Campbell
Before it could fall, I had my Solar out and, with a wide-angle shot, burned the contract to ashes.
The Repairman | Harry Harrison
Down at a wide angle it came for the beach; then, when it was a hundred feet away, it sheared suddenly out to sea.
Astounding Stories, July, 1931 | Various

It bent around in such a curve as to end in a wide angle toward two degrees forty minutes north latitude.
Five Weeks in a Balloon | Jules Verne

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