axonometric

American  

[ak-suh-noh-me-trik, -nuh-] / ˌæk sə noʊˈmɛ trɪk, -nə- /

adjective

Drafting.

1. designating a method of projection axonometricprojection in which a three-dimensional object is represented by a drawing axonometricdrawing having all axes drawn to exact scale, resulting in the optical distortion of diagonals and curves.

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Etymology

Origin of axonometric

1905–10; < Greek áxōn ( axon ) + -o- + -metric

Example Sentences

This show includes two magnificent six-panel folding screens that Shunsho painted around 1790, in which well-dressed women lie along parallel diagonal lines at the same scale — so-called axonometric perspective, a pillar of Chinese painting.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023

An axonometric rendering here shows massive, Tokyo-style LED screens promoting GeoCities, Lycos and other children of the dot-com bubble, as well as a live broadcast from the stock exchange floor by a young Maria Bartiromo.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2018

The paintings for the Peak Club combined something of the seeing-from-all-sides-at-once ecstasy of Analytical Cubism with the rigorous non-perspectival projective geometries—isomorphic, axonometric, paraline—that architects have long deployed to capture three dimensions in two.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 4, 2016

He is wont to portray almost any three- dimensional object in gaily colored axonometric view, and the effect is a sort of jaunty rigor, Bauhaus on holiday.

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