wide-angle 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

   Synonymsfisheye lens

   Broadercamera lens

Questions about wide-angle lens

What does wide-angle lens mean?

wide-angle 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 wide-angle lens?

Close synonyms include fisheye 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 wide-angle lens a common word?

wide-angle 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.