Definition of perspective
- n. - Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.
- n. - Pertaining to the art, or in accordance with the laws,
of perspective.
- a. - A glass through which objects are viewed.
- a. - That which is seen through an opening; a view; a
vista.
- a. - The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects,
by means of which the eye recognized them as being at a more or less
measurable distance. Hence, aerial perspective, the assumed greater
vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects.
- a. - The art and the science of so delineating objects that
they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; -- called
also linear perspective.
- a. - A drawing in linear perspective.