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Definition of Foreshortened

Foreshorten
Foreshorten Fore*short"en, v. t. 1. (Fine Art) To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective. 2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time. --Tennyson.

Meaning of Foreshortened from wikipedia

- can be used (just as with one-point perspective) to indicate frontal (foreshortened) depth. Chauvet cave, spatially effective grading of a group of animals...
- axonometric projection in which the three coordinate axes appear equally foreshortened and the angle between any two of them is 120 degrees. The term "isometric"...
- impact crater that lies near the eastern limb of the Moon, giving it a foreshortened appearance when viewed from the Earth. The crater overlies the western...
- of Christ (also known as the Lamentation over the Dead Christ, The Foreshortened Christ, or the Dead Christ and Three Mourners and other variants) is...
- space appear equally foreshortened, and there is a common angle of 120° between them. As the distortion caused by foreshortening is uniform, the proportionality...
- space appear equally foreshortened, and there is a common angle of 120° between them. As the distortion caused by foreshortening is uniform, the proportionality...
- galactic nucleus of M87 subtends 20″ and is thought to be 1.5 kilop****cs (4,892 ly) long (the jet is somewhat foreshortened from Earth's perspective)....
- axis demonstrates that, even as OB is foreshortened from the point of view of observer O, OA is likewise foreshortened from the point of view of observer...
- the spirit". 'Ilm al-Kalām, literally "science of discourse", usually foreshortened to kalam and sometimes called Islamic scholastic theology, is an Islamic...
- rabbit; impressed foreshortened rabbit beneath. 1929-1943: REGISTERED added under standard Dedham Pottery stamp; two impressed foreshortened rabbits beneath...