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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A form of perspective in drawing and painting in which parallel lines are represented as converging so as to give the illusion of depth and distance.
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- noun art A form of
geometric perspective in which parallel lines arerepresented asconverging in order to give theillusion ofdepth anddistance .
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- noun the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
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