perspective
a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface.: Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
a picture employing this technique, especially one in which it is prominent: an architect's perspective of a house.
a visible scene, especially one extending to a distance; vista: a perspective on the main axis of an estate.
the state of existing in space before the eye: The elevations look all right, but the building's composition is a failure in perspective.
the state of one's ideas, the facts known to one, etc., in having a meaningful interrelationship: You have to live here a few years to see local conditions in perspective.
the faculty of seeing all the relevant data in a meaningful relationship: Your data is admirably detailed but it lacks perspective.
a mental view or prospect: the dismal perspective of terminally ill patients.
of or relating to the art of perspective, or represented according to its laws.
Origin of perspective
1Other words from perspective
- per·spec·tiv·al, adjective
- per·spec·tived, adjective
- per·spec·tive·less, adjective
- per·spec·tive·ly, adverb
- non·per·spec·tive, noun, adjective
Words that may be confused with perspective
- perspective , prospective
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How to use perspective in a sentence
This difference in perspectives is really starting to bother me, since our children are at an age where everything we say counts.
Carolyn Hax: She has a 90-minute commute, but it doesn’t have to be all uphill | Carolyn Hax | November 12, 2020 | Washington PostIf that background has lent him one perspective in his current job, he has said, it’s that facts and figures matter.
His fellow Republicans turned on him, but Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger isn’t backing down | Reis Thebault, Amy Gardner | November 12, 2020 | Washington PostThis should remove the “creepy” noise from the marketing system from a user perspective.
Concrete steps marketers should take now to get ready for CA’s CPRA in 2023 | Greg Sterling | November 11, 2020 | Search Engine LandOftentimes, when we visualize the perfect buyer’s journey, we’re looking at it from a marketer’s perspective, imagining what we’re trying to achieve with our initiatives.
Building connections between siloed channels, technologies and teams | Sponsored Content: Integrate | November 11, 2020 | Search Engine LandThen when I found out that I was having a girl, my whole perspective on my career and my life completely changed.
Michelle Wie West on her golf comeback plan: I want my daughter to see me play | ehinchliffe | November 10, 2020 | Fortune
Horizontals in the same plane which are drawn to the same point on the horizon are perspectively parallel to each other.
The Theory and Practice of Perspective | George Adolphus StoreyThis motion, granting it to exist, would be manifested perspectively.
Eureka: | Edgar A. PoeWhen you see it bent back you see it perspectively distorted.
Popular scientific lectures | Ernst MachThe intermediate picture, as it may be called—the human artist's work—is itself seen perspectively.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) | Augustus De MorganYou have often heard, and know from personal experience, that remote objects appear perspectively dwarfed.
Popular scientific lectures | Ernst Mach
British Dictionary definitions for perspective
/ (pəˈspɛktɪv) /
a way of regarding situations, facts, etc, and judging their relative importance
the proper or accurate point of view or the ability to see it; objectivity: try to get some perspective on your troubles
the theory or art of suggesting three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface, in order to recreate the appearance and spatial relationships that objects or a scene in recession present to the eye
the appearance of objects, buildings, etc, relative to each other, as determined by their distance from the viewer, or the effects of this distance on their appearance
a view over some distance in space or time; vista; prospect
a picture showing perspective
Origin of perspective
1Derived forms of perspective
- perspectively, adverb
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for perspective
In drawing or painting, a way of portraying three dimensions on a flat, two-dimensional surface by suggesting depth or distance.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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