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Noun: wide-angle lens
  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 centre and increasingly distorted in the periphery
    - fisheye lens, fisheye

Derived forms: wide-angle lenses

Type of: camera lens, optical lens

Encyclopedia: Wide-angle lens