LINEAR PERSPECTIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does linear perspective mean? 

• LINEAR PERSPECTIVE (noun)
  The noun LINEAR PERSPECTIVE has 1 sense:

1. the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer

  Familiarity information: LINEAR PERSPECTIVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LINEAR PERSPECTIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

linear perspective; perspective

Hypernyms ("linear perspective" is a kind of...):

appearance; visual aspect (outward or visible aspect of a person or thing)

Meronyms (parts of "linear perspective"):

vanishing point (the appearance of a point on the horizon at which parallel lines converge)

apparent horizon; horizon; sensible horizon; skyline; visible horizon (the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet)

picture plane (the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work)