perspective : Idioms & Phrases

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Aërial perspective

  • . See Perspective.
Webster 1913

Isometrical perspective

  • an inaccurate term for a mechanical way of representing objects in the direction of the diagonal of a cube.
Webster 1913

linear perspective

  • noun the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
    perspective.
WordNet

Perspective glass

  • a telescope which shows objects in the right position.
Webster 1913

Perspective plane

  • the plane or surface on which the objects are delineated, or the picture drawn; the plane of projection; distinguished from the ground plane, which is that on which the objects are represented as standing. When this plane is oblique to the principal face of the object, the perspective is called oblique perspective; when parallel to that face, parallel perspective.
Webster 1913

Perspective shell

  • (Zoöl.), any shell of the genus Solarium and allied genera. See Solarium.
Webster 1913