foreshortening

English

Verb

foreshortening

  1. present participle of foreshorten

Noun

foreshortening (countable and uncountable, plural foreshortenings)

  1. (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.
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