Perspective

per-spek′tiv, n. a view or a vista: the art of drawing objects on a plane surface, so as to give the picture the same appearance to the eye as the objects themselves: just proportion in all the parts: a telescope or field-gla : a picture in perspective.— adj. pertaining or according to perspective.— adv. Perspec′tively .— ns. Perspec′to graph , an instrument for indicating correctly the points and outlines of objects; Perspectog′raphy , the science of perspective, or of delineating it.— Perspective plane , the surface on which the picture of the objects to be represented in perspective is drawn.— In perspective , according to the laws of perspective. [Fr.,—L. perspicĕre , perspectum — per , through, specĕre , to look.]