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perspective

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1. perspective - Noun

2. perspective - Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.

Pertaining to the art, or in accordance with the laws, of perspective.

A glass through which objects are viewed.

That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista.

The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects, by means of which the eye recognized them as being at a more or less measurable distance. Hence, aerial perspective, the assumed greater vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects.

The art and the science of so delineating objects that they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; -- called also linear perspective.

A drawing in linear perspective.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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consider what follows from the positivist view Source: Internet

A 2018 BLS report,Labor Force Characteristics by Race and Ethnicity puts the situation into perspective. Source: Internet

1948 brought the ultimate victory of the Communists, and the subsequent end of civil freedoms — any literature contrary to the official perspective was banned and the authors persecuted. Source: Internet

A balanced perspective was lost, and everyone missed the fact that people on all sides were sometimes censored." Source: Internet

1UP.com called the game ambitious for its time, writing that it represented an evolution of the overhead perspective action adventure genre. Source: Internet

A 2011 UNICEF report concludes that sharia law provisions are discriminatory against women from a human rights perspective. Source: Internet

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