What is "foreshortening"

Usage examples of "foreshortening".

While Joe continued reading off time checks and numbers, Keene rechecked his own panel to make sure all the NIFTV's systems were ready, then turned his eyes again to the image shrinking and foreshortening on the main screen.

It meant that the tail was foreshortening as Athena came around from perihelion, swinging around like a lighthouse beam to sweep past Earth before Athena crossed Earth's orbit in just a few weeks time.

While Joe continued reading off time checks and numbers, Keene rechecked his own panel to make sure all the NIFTV’s systems were ready, then turned his eyes again to the image shrinking and foreshortening on the main screen.

It meant that the tail was foreshortening as Athena came around from perihelion, swinging around like a lighthouse beam to sweep past Earth before Athena crossed Earth’s orbit in just a few weeks time.

They play a role in the structure of situations and the foreshortening of our relationships with things accelerates the pace of life.

The foreshortening of our ties with the physical environment, the stepped-up turnover of things, however, is only a small part of a much larger context.

Despite the foreshortening from Sharina's vantage point, she could see that it was big: eight feet tall, perhaps ten.

Despite the dim light, Garric could tell that the sculptors had distorted the figures to compensate for the foreshortening of seeing them from the floor.

The drawing had the weird, sprawling foreshortening that he’d never gotten right in his studio classes.

Its fugitive slanting lines, that lent themselves to all manner of tender tilts and foreshortenings, had the freakish grace of some young head of the Italian comedy.