ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Foreshortening

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Foreshortening is a noun meaning A similar contracted appearance in film or photography, etc.

Meaning

A similar contracted appearance in film or photography, etc.

More Meanings

  1. present participle and gerund of foreshorten
  2. (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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Related dictionary entries include abbreviate, cut, abridge, shorten, contract, reduce.

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