FORESHORTENING

Noun

foreshortening (countable and uncountable, plural foreshortenings)

(arts) 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.

Verb

foreshortening

present participle of foreshorten

Source: Wiktionary

Fore*short"en*ing, n. (Fine Arts)

Definition: Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.

FORESHORTEN

Fore*short"en, v. t.

1. (Fine Art)

Definition: To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.

2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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