| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.[Websters]. | |
| Verb | 1. To view.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle conjugation of the verb foreshorten.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (foreshorten) | 1. Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.[Wordnet]. 2. Shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth.[Wordnet]. 3. To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.[Websters]. 4. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: foreshortening, foreshortened, foreshortens, foreshortener, foreshorteners, foreshorteningly and foreshortenedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FORESHORTENING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1485. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FORESHORTENING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Noun] In painting, the act of shortening figures for the sake of showing those behind. The art of conveying to the mind the impression of the entire length of an object, when represented as viewed in an oblique or receding position.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Aerospace | Distortions related to the imaging geometry of the radar system through which terrain slopes facing the antenna appear smaller (compressed) in the resulting imagery. (references) | ||
| Environment | A distortion in radar images causing the lengths of slopes facing the antenna to appear shorter on the image than on the ground. It is produced when radar wavefronts are steeper than the topographic slope. (references) | ||
| Space | 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. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (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. (references) | 2: [Verb] Present participle of foreshorten. (references) | |
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