wide-angle

[wahyd-ang-guhl]

adjective

Photography.

1. 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.

2. employing, or made with, a wide-angle lens.

   a wide-angle camera; a wide-angle shot.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wide-angle¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

There’s a wide-angle shot of a nightclub where Condon gives her and a dozen background performers a full, uncut minute to twirl.

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And yet he takes a wide-angle view, noting that at his age he’s lived through numerous cultural ebbs and flows.

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“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.

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A telephoto lens offers higher resolution, while a wide-angle lens allows a larger field of view.

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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.

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