a picture employing this technique, esp. one in which it is prominent: an architect's perspective of a house.
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a visible scene, esp. one extending to a distance; vista: a perspective on the main axis of an estate.
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the state of existing in space before the eye: The elevations look all right, but the building's composition is a failure in perspective.
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the state of one's ideas, the facts known to one, etc., in having a meaningful interrelationship: You have to live here a few years to see local conditions in perspective.
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the faculty of seeing all the relevant data in a meaningful relationship: Your data is admirably detailed but it lacks perspective.
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a mental view or prospect: the dismal perspective of terminally ill patients.
–adjective
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of or pertaining to the art of perspective, or represented according to its laws.
Origin: 1350–1400; ME < ML perspectīva (ars) optical (science), perspectīvum optical glass, n. uses of fem. and neut. of perspectīvus optical, equiv. to L perspect-, ptp. s. of perspicere to look at closely (see per-, inspect) + -īvus-ive
A mental view or outlook: "It is useful occasionally to look at the past to gain a perspective on the present"(Fabian Linden).
The relationship of aspects of a subject to each other and to a whole: a perspective of history; a need to view the problem in the proper perspective.
Subjective evaluation of relative significance; a point of view: the perspective of the displaced homemaker.
The ability to perceive things in their actual interrelations or comparative importance: tried to keep my perspective throughout the crisis.
The appearance of objects in depth as perceived by normal binocular vision.
The relationship of aspects of a subject to each other and to a whole: a perspective of history; a need to view the problem in the proper perspective.
Subjective evaluation of relative significance; a point of view: the perspective of the displaced homemaker.
The ability to perceive things in their actual interrelations or comparative importance: tried to keep my perspective throughout the crisis.
The technique of representing three-dimensional objects and depth relationships on a two-dimensional surface.
adj. Of, relating to, seen, or represented in perspective.
[Middle English, science of optics (influenced by French perspective, perspective), from Medieval Latin perspectīva (ars), feminine of perspectīvus, optical, from perspectus, past participle of perspicere, to inspect : per-, per- + specere, to look; see spek- in Indo-European roots.] per·spec'tiv·al adj., per·spec'tive·ly adv.
[per-spek-tiv] 
