foreshortening

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Noun

foreshortening

1. (arts) 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

• French: raccourci
• German: Verkürzung
• Italian: scorcio
• Russian: ра́курс
• Spanish: escorzo

Verb

1. present participle of foreshorten#English|foreshorten

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