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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to an orthogonal projection in which distant features are drawn to the same scale as near ones, thus causing some distortion but allowing views of more than one side of the object.

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  • adjective Describing a projection in which the horizontal and vertical axes are to the same scale, but the third axis is reduced to allow for perspective

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From axonometry : Greek axōn, axis + –metry.]

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