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LINEAR PERSPECTIVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Synonyms:
linear perspective; perspective
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("linear perspective" is a kind of...):
appearance; visual aspect (outward or visible aspect of a person or thing)
Meronyms (parts of "linear perspective"):
vanishing point (the appearance of a point on the horizon at which parallel lines converge)
apparent horizon; horizon; sensible horizon; skyline; visible horizon (the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet)
picture plane (the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work)