foreshortening
English
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Noun
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.
Translations
art technique
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Verb
foreshortening
Further reading
foreshortening on Wikipedia.Wikipedia