perspective
noun
a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface.
perspectively
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a word derived from
perspective.
Example Sentences
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In particular, the points on a tangent are said to be perspectively related to the tangents of a conic when each point lies on the tangent which corresponds to it.
From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Lehmer, Derrick Norman
For all straight lines which meet at any point on the horizon are perspectively parallel to each other, just as two geometrical parallels crossing two others at any angle, as at Fig.
From The Theory and Practice of Perspective by Storey, G. A. (George Adolphus)
You have often heard, and know from personal experience, that remote objects appear perspectively dwarfed.
From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst
An entirely similar discussion shows that If in two projective pencils the line joining their centers is a self-corresponding ray, then the two pencils are perspectively related.
From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Lehmer, Derrick Norman
It seems possible to reduce perspectively many officers in England and in Ireland who do not really contribute to the state of the crown.
From A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II by Ellenborough, Edward Law, Earl of
