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PICTURE PLANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does picture plane mean? 

PICTURE PLANE (noun)
  The noun PICTURE PLANE has 1 sense:

1. the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the workplay

  Familiarity information: PICTURE PLANE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PICTURE PLANE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("picture plane" is a kind of...):

plane; sheet ((mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape)

Holonyms ("picture plane" is a part of...):

linear perspective; perspective (the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer)


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