- an unobstructed and wide view of an extensive area in all directions.
- a horizontally extended visual representation providing a wide view of a landscape or other scene, in photography made by joining a series of shots or by using a wide-angle lens, and in film by pivoting the camera horizontally from a fixed place.
- Older Use
- an extended pictorial representation or a cyclorama of a landscape or other scene, often exhibited one part at a time and made to pass continuously before the spectators.
- a building for exhibiting such a pictorial representation.
- a continuously passing or changing scene or an unfolding of events: the panorama of Chinese history.
- a comprehensive survey, as of a subject.
- an extensive unbroken view, as of a landscape, in all directions
- a wide or comprehensive survey
- a large extended picture or series of pictures of a scene, unrolled before spectators a part at a time so as to appear continuous
- another name for cyclorama
