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perspective

PERSPEC'TIVE, a. [infra.] Pertaining to the science of optics; optical.

1. Pertaining to the art of perspective.

PERSPEC'TIVE, n. [L. perspicio; per and specio, to see.]

1. A glass through which objects are viewed.

2. The art of drawing on a plane surface true resemblances or pictures of objects, as the objects appear to the eye from any distance and situation, real and imaginary; as the rules of perspective.

3. A representation of objects in perspective.

4. View; vista; as perspectives of pleasant shades.

5. A kind of painting, often seen in gardens and at the end of a gallery, designed expressly to deceive the sight by representing the continuation of an alley, a building, a landscape or the like.

Aerial perspective,the art of giving due diminution to the strength of light, shade and colors of objects, according to their distances and the quantity of light falling on them, and to the medium through which they are seen.



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PERSPEC'TIVE, a. [infra.] Pertaining to the science of optics; optical.

1. Pertaining to the art of perspective.

PERSPEC'TIVE, n. [L. perspicio; per and specio, to see.]

1. A glass through which objects are viewed.

2. The art of drawing on a plane surface true resemblances or pictures of objects, as the objects appear to the eye from any distance and situation, real and imaginary; as the rules of perspective.

3. A representation of objects in perspective.

4. View; vista; as perspectives of pleasant shades.

5. A kind of painting, often seen in gardens and at the end of a gallery, designed expressly to deceive the sight by representing the continuation of an alley, a building, a landscape or the like.

Aerial perspective,the art of giving due diminution to the strength of light, shade and colors of objects, according to their distances and the quantity of light falling on them, and to the medium through which they are seen.


PER-SPEC'TIVE, a. [infra.]

  1. Pertaining to the science of optics; optical. – Bacon.
  2. Pertaining to the art of perspective. – Encyc.

PER-SPEC'TIVE, n. [Fr.; It. perspettiva; Sp. perspectiva; from L. perspicio, per and specio, to see.]

  1. A glass through which objects are viewed. – Temple.
  2. The art of drawing on a plane surface true resemblances or pictures of objects, as the objects appear to the eye from any distance and situation, real and imaginary; as, the rules of perspective. – Encyc.
  3. A representation of objects in perspective. – Encyc.
  4. View; vista; as, perspectives of pleasant shades. – Dryden.
  5. A kind of painting, often seen in gardens and at the end of a gallery, designed expressly to deceive the sight by representing the continuation of an alley, a building, a landscape or the like. Aerial perspective, the art of giving due diminution to the strength of light, shade and colors of objects, according to their distances and the quantity of light falling on them, and to the medium through which they are seen. – Encyc. Isometrical perspective is the art of drawing in perspective, as a building for instance, with each part of the same relative size, the more distant objects being undiminished by distance, as in ordinary perspective. – Haldeman.

Per*spec"tive
  1. Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.

    [Obs.] Bacon.
  2. A glass through which objects are viewed.

    [Obs.] "Not a perspective, but a mirror." Sir T. Browne.
  3. Pertaining to the art, or in accordance with the laws, of perspective.

    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. -- Perspective shell (Zoöl.), any shell of the genus Solarium and allied genera. See Solarium.

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

    "The perspective of life." Goldsmith.
  5. 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, aërial perspective, the assumed greater vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects.

    Aërial perspective is the expression of space by any means whatsoever, sharpness of edge, vividness of color, etc. Ruskin.

  6. 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.
  7. A drawing in linear perspective.

    Isometrical perspective, an inaccurate term for a mechanical way of representing objects in the direction of the diagonal of a cube. -- Perspective glass, a telescope which shows objects in the right position.

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Perspective

PERSPEC'TIVE, adjective [infra.] Pertaining to the science of optics; optical.

1. Pertaining to the art of perspective

PERSPEC'TIVE, noun [Latin perspicio; per and specio, to see.]

1. A glass through which objects are viewed.

2. The art of drawing on a plane surface true resemblances or pictures of objects, as the objects appear to the eye from any distance and situation, real and imaginary; as the rules of perspective

3. A representation of objects in perspective

4. View; vista; as perspectives of pleasant shades.

5. A kind of painting, often seen in gardens and at the end of a gallery, designed expressly to deceive the sight by representing the continuation of an alley, a building, a landscape or the like.

Aerial perspective the art of giving due diminution to the strength of light, shade and colors of objects, according to their distances and the quantity of light falling on them, and to the medium through which they are seen.

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