fisheye lens

1. 1.

   a camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length); produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery

   Synonymswide-angle lens

   Broadercamera lens

Questions about fisheye lens

What does fisheye lens mean?

fisheye lens means "a camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length); produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery".

What is another word for fisheye lens?

Close synonyms include wide-angle lens. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fisheye lens a common word?

fisheye lens is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.