PERSPECTIVE
\pəspˈɛktɪv], \pəspˈɛktɪv], \p_ə_s_p_ˈɛ_k_t_ɪ_v]\
Definitions of PERSPECTIVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Pertaining to the art, or in accordance with the laws, of perspective.
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A glass through which objects are viewed.
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That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista.
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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.
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A drawing in linear perspective.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Pertaining to the art, or in accordance with the laws, of perspective.
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A glass through which objects are viewed.
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That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista.
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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.
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A drawing in linear perspective.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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Pertaining to, or in accordance with, the art of showing, on a surface, objects as they appear to the eye.
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A distant view; the art of representing objects, on a plane surface, in three dimensions, as they appear to the eye; the effect of distance on the appearance of objects.
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Perspectively.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A view, vista: the art of delineating objects on a plane surface as they appear to the eye: a picture in perspective.
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Pertaining or according to perspective.
By Daniel Lyons
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Pertaining to perspective.
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View; vista; art of representing objects on a plane surface as they appear to the eye.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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