wide-angle

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: wide-an=gle

CIDE DICTIONARY

wide-angle, a. 

 Having or covering an angle wider than the ordinary; -- applied to certain lenses of relatively short focus. Lenses for ordinary purposes have an angle of 50° or less. Wide-angle lenses may cover as much as 100° and are useful for photographing at short range, but the pictures appear distorted.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]