wide-angle

[ wahyd-ang-guhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Photography.

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.

First recorded in 1875–80

Ginny and I were offered the opportunity to develop a project for Wide Angle called Women, War, and Peace.

The wide angle between the two main artes involves perhaps too long a face; a further support is added.

We have the ones we took coming in; what we want is a wide-angle shot.

Before it could fall, I had my Solar out and, with a wide-angle shot, burned the contract to ashes.

Down at a wide angle it came for the beach; then, when it was a hundred feet away, it sheared suddenly out to sea.

It bent around in such a curve as to end in a wide angle toward two degrees forty minutes north latitude.

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