Perspective

[pə'spektɪv] or [pɚ'spɛktɪv]

Definition

(noun.) the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer.

Editor: Rae--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.

(n.) Pertaining to the art, or in accordance with the laws, of perspective.

(a.) A glass through which objects are viewed.

(a.) That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista.

(a.) The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects, by means of which the eye recognized them as being at a more or less measurable distance. Hence, aerial perspective, the assumed greater vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects.

(a.) The art and the science of so delineating objects that they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; -- called also linear perspective.

(a.) A drawing in linear perspective.

Typist: Weldon

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Vista, prospect, view.

Edited by Bessie

Definition

n. a view or a vista: the art of drawing objects on a plane surface so as to give the picture the same appearance to the eye as the objects themselves: just proportion in all the parts: a telescope or field-glass: a picture in perspective.—adj. pertaining or according to perspective.—adv. Perspec′tively.—ns. Perspec′tograph an instrument for indicating correctly the points and outlines of objects; Perspectog′raphy the science of perspective or of delineating it.—Perspective plane the surface on which the picture of the objects to be represented in perspective is drawn.—In perspective according to the laws of perspective.

Edited by Cary

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Typed by Lisa

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