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vanishing point

Word definitions for vanishing point in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ " Vanishing Point " is the 36th episode (production #210) of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise , the tenth of the second season. Ensign Hoshi Sato passes through the transporter and finds that she is disappearing. At the same time, she ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the point beyond which something disappears or ceases to exist the appearance of a point on the horizon at which parallel lines converge

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vanishing \Van"ish*ing\, a. & n. from Vanish , v. Vanishing fraction (Math.), a fraction which reduces to the form 0/0 for a particular value of the variable which enters it, usually in consequence of the existence of a common factor in both terms of the ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The point in a perspective drawing at which parallel lines recede from an observer seem to converge. 2 The situation in which, place where, or point in time when some object or phenomenon is no longer observable or notable.

Usage examples of vanishing point.

Oh, man, this woman had almost made him hit the vanishing point by himself.

The colours formed a tunnel that blazed away to a vanishing point.

As soon as the transformation was complete, she tried to shrink, to dwindle to her vanishing point.

That's when it happened, when you took me to the vanishing point—.

It resembled a half-meter-wide pipe made of quicksilver, stretching off to its own vanishing point, not in a straight line and not in a curve, not moving and not standing still.

When the chance of this planet's being a trap had dropped in computer-estimation to the vanishing point, the berserker moved in to close range, and began to mop the remaining defensive satellites out of its way.

Looking due south the perspective was very nearly linear, with the red meridians wrapping the torus appearing to converge toward a distant vanishing point.

Captain Marcus LeBlanc, wearing his novelist's hat, had tapped into a nightmare which had receded nearly to the vanishing point in the years of peace.

He traveled alone as he visited the various hunting parties, finding such travel to be safer each day as the dwindling of the unicorns neared the vanishing point.

Then he turned and walked away, quickly reaching a vanishing point and passing into it.

Now curling patterns in the middle receded, diminishing toward a central vanishing point while more and more bright, complex objects swarmed in from the periphery.

The darkling plain of Ys, the wide ribbon of the Great River stretching away toward the vanishing point, where the Eye of the Preservers had risen a finger-breadth above the edge of the world.

Downriver, where the world narrowed to its vanishing point, was a dim red glow, as if a fire had been kindled beneath the horizon.