Lantern vs Fisheye - What's the difference?
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A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
(architecture) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
(architecture) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
(architecture) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light.
(engineering) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel.
(steam engines) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc.; a lantern brass.
(metalworking) A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
(zoology) Aristotle's lantern
An unfriendly or suspicious glance.
An undesirable effect in paint, particularly automotive finishes, normally caused by oil or other contaminants on the painted surface.
(photography, of a lens) Covering an extremely wide angle and producing a circular image that is distorted towards the edges.
As nouns the difference between lantern and fisheye
is that lantern is a case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings while fisheye is an unfriendly or suspicious glance.As a verb lantern
is to furnish with a lantern.As an adjective fisheye is
covering an extremely wide angle and producing a circular that is distorted towards the edges.lantern
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic) lanthornNoun
(en noun)- the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral