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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
perspective/pəˈspektɪv/
▶noun
- 1 the art of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to convey the impression of height, width, depth, and relative distance.
■ the appearance of viewed objects with regard to their relative position, distance from the viewer, etc.: a trick of perspective.
- 2 a view or prospect.
- 3 a particular way of regarding something.
- 4 understanding of the relative importance of things: we must keep a sense of perspective about what he's done.
- 5 an apparent spatial distribution in perceived sound.
– derivatives
perspectival adjective.
perspectival adjective.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘optics’): from med. L. perspectiva (ars) ‘(science of) optics’, from perspect-, perspicere ‘look at closely’.
'perspective' also found in these Oxford entries:
ahistorical
- axonometric
- critical theory
- cubism
- egocentric
- ethology
- foreshorten
- illusionism
- isometric
- mannerism
- perspectivism
- revisit
- scenography
- sciagraphy
- vanishing point
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'three-fold' perspective:
(the) perspective of...
"horizon" and "perspective"
"I have a new perspective of life"
"insert national perspective"
"Keep things in perspective"
"put that in perspective"
a distinction that should put your B in perspective and your disappointment
A or An unitary perspective?
a sense of perspective
a sense of perspective
agreement to treatment & perspective
From an interpretivist perspective
from somebody's perspective
get perspective on
global reach or global perspective
in its proper perspective
In this statement, it would be shown a professional and academic perspective in aim to explain the knowledge and research methods that have been performed at the time and in-situ.
insular perspective
it puts the main clause in perspective
men turn their thoughts toward home and humanity-seeing in that far perspective that man's destiny on earth is not divisible
my perspective on/of
Perspective
perspective
perspective
perspective long term
perspective VS viewpoint
perspective--idioms
perspective/promising
more...
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