WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
an′amor′phic lens′, Motion Pictures, Optics.
- Cinema, Opticsa compound lens or system of lenses that compresses the camera image in the horizontal direction during filming, so that a wide-screen image can fit on the width of conventional 35-mm film.
- Cinema, Opticsa similar system used in projection that horizontally expands the compressed image back to its original wide-screen aspect ratio.
- 1950–55