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
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
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
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
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