Meaning & use

fisheye

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A camera lens with an extremely wide, curved field of view that produces a distorted, spherical-looking image.

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The photographer used a fisheye lens to capture the entire skate park in one shot.

The security camera's fisheye view let it monitor the whole room at once.

A note on using this word

"Fisheye" is almost always used as a modifier in the phrase "fisheye lens," named for its resemblance to the bulging eye of a fish.

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