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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Fine Arts)

Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.

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.

foreshortening ‎(countable and uncountable, plural foreshortenings)

(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.

foreshortening