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Fisheye lens

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Noun
  1. 1
    A wide-angle lens having an extremely wide field of view (approaching or exceeding 180 degrees) and producing images that are circular or distorted by curvature at the edges.
  2. 2
    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 wordnet

Etymology

Coined in 1906 by the American physicist Robert W. Wood.

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