Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for drawing the perspective of an object from its orthogonal projections, that is, its plan and elevations. Some forms of the instrument are also capable, by reversal, of representing the orthogonal projections of an object from its perspectives or photographs. The latter forms are used in photographic surveying (which see, under
surveying ). - noun An instrument of various forms for obtaining or transferring to a surface the points and outlines of objects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument for obtaining, and transferring to a picture, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from some one point.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
instrument for obtaining, and transferring to apicture , the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their propergeometrical relations as viewed from a single point.
Etymologies
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Latin perspectus (p.p. of perspicere to look through) + -graph.
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