foreshortening
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]foreshortening (countable and uncountable, plural foreshortenings)
- (art) A technique for creating the appearance that the object of a drawing is extending into space by shortening the lines with which that object is drawn.
- A similar contracted appearance in film or photography, etc.
Translations
[edit]art technique
Verb
[edit]foreshortening
- present participle and gerund of foreshorten
Further reading
[edit]- foreshortening on Wikipedia.Wikipedia