foreshorten

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von foreshorten im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch: kısalt; {f} yanında küçük göstermek; resimde yandan görülen bir şeyin boyunu kısa göstermek; {f} yanındakini küçük göstermek

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von foreshorten im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually; to make shorter; to abridge, reduce, contract; {v} to shorten the forefingers; {f} draw in perspective to give the appearance of depth; shorten, minimize; shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth; To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective; reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"; To represent pictorially to the imagination; Fig; To foreshorten someone or something means to draw them, photograph them, or see them from an unusual angle so that the parts of them that are furthest away seem smaller than they really are. She could see herself in the reflecting lenses, which had grotesquely foreshortened her
foreshortening: 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
foreshortening: {n} the act of shortening the forepart
foreshortened: {s} drawn in perspective, having the appearance of depth; shortened, reduced
foreshortened: past of foreshorten
foreshortening: present participle of foreshorten
foreshortening: {i} method of drawing which gives the illusion of depth; shortening, minimization
foreshortening: Technique of perspective that entails representing a figure on planes set at an angle to the observer, so that some parts of it look closer and others look further away
foreshortening: A method of depicting objects on a two-dimensional surface so they appear to lie flat and/or recede into the distance For example, a foreshortened circular plate becomes an ellipse
foreshortening: Reducing or distorting in order to represent three-dimensional space as perceived by the eye, according to the rules of perspective
foreshortening: The fractional area of the solar (or a stellar) disk occupied by a circular spot, such as a sunspot, varies as the star rotates because of projection onto the line of sight
foreshortening: Representation in a foreshortened mode or way
foreshortening: Spatial distortion whereby terrain slopes facing a side-looking radar's illumination are mapped as having a compressed range scale relative to its appearance if the same terrain were level Foreshortening is a special case of elevation displacement The effect is more pronounced for steeper slopes, and for radars that use steeper incidence angles Range scale expansion, the complementary effect, occurs for slopes that face away from the radar illumination
foreshortening: The artistic technique whereby a sense of depth and three-dimensionality is obtained by the use of receding lines
foreshortening: A form of perspective where the nearest parts of an object or form are enlarged so that the rest of the form appears to go back in space
foreshortens: third-person singular of foreshorten