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Foreshortening

To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.

📖 Definitions of "Foreshortening"

verb
  1. 1

    To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.

verb
  1. 1

    To abridge, reduce, contract.

  2. 2

    To make shorter.

noun
  1. 1

    A technique for creating the appearance that the object of a drawing is extending into space by shortening the lines with which that object is drawn.

  2. 2

    A similar contracted appearance in film or photography, etc.

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