Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having or affording a wide range of vision.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Literally, seeing everything; -- a term applied to eyeglasses or spectacles divided into two segments, the upper being designed for distant vision, the lower for vision of near objects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective optics Designed to
focus on bothnear anddistant objects at the same time
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A method was then referred to of making a rapid portrait lens cover a very large angle by pivoting at its optical center and traversing the plate in the manner of the pantoscopic camera.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various
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