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Vanishing point   /vˈænɪʃɪŋ pɔɪnt/   Listen
Vanishing point

noun
1.
The point beyond which something disappears or ceases to exist.
2.
The appearance of a point on the horizon at which parallel lines converge.





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"Vanishing point" Quotes from Famous Books



... her loosened intelligence the endless years to come rolled away, grey and monotonous, to their vanishing point. She had made her choice and had not found heart to give it up, after she had made it, while there was yet time. Time itself took shape before her closed eyes, as many succeeding steps, and she saw herself toiling up them, a bent, veiled figure ...
— Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2) • F. Marion Crawford
... of Oxford for the next eighteen months, important and interesting though it is, we are not concerned. The scholars returned slowly to the half-empty colleges, where admissions had dwindled almost to vanishing point. At Wadham, for instance, the admissions in 1643 were only seven; in 1644, three; in 1645, none; in 1646, seven; in 1647, when the worst of the fighting was over, they rose to nineteen. The Independents and the ...
— The Life and Times of John Wilkins • Patrick A. Wright-Henderson


Words linked to "Vanishing point" :   linear perspective, perspective, point, appearance, visual aspect


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