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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Perspective \Per*spec"tive\, noun [F. perspective, fr. perspectif: cf. It. perspettiva. See {Perspective}, adjective]
1. A glass through which objects are viewed. [Obs.] "Not a perspective, but a mirror." --Sir T. Browne.
2. That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista. "The perspective of life." --Goldsmith.
3. The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects, by means of which the eye recognizes them as being at a more or less measurable distance. Hence, a["e]rial perspective, the assumed greater vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects.
A["e]rial perspective is the expression of space by any means whatsoever, sharpness of edge, vividness of color, etc. --Ruskin.
4. 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}.
5. A drawing in linear perspective.
{Isometrical perspective}, an inaccurate term for a mechanical way of representing objects in the direction of the diagonal of a cube.
{Perspective glass}, a telescope which shows objects in the right position.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Perspective \Per*spec"tive\ (p[~e]r*sp[e^]k"t[i^]v), adjective [L. perspicere, perspectum, to look through; per + spicere, specere, to look: cf. F. perspectif; or from E. perspective, n. See {Spy}, noun]
1. Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical. [Obs.] --Bacon.
2. Pertaining to the art, or in accordance with the laws, of perspective.
{Perspective plane}, the plane or surface on which the objects are delineated, or the picture drawn; the plane of projection; -- distinguished from the {ground plane}, which is that on which the objects are represented as standing. When this plane is oblique to the principal face of the object, the perspective is called {oblique perspective}; when parallel to that face, {parallel perspective}.
{Perspective shell} (Zool.), any shell of the genus {Solarium} and allied genera. See {Solarium}.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view" [syn: {position}, {view}, {perspective}]
2: the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer [syn: {perspective}, {linear perspective}]
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