English Explanatory Dictionary

perspectograph

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An instrument for obtaining, and transferring to a picture, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from a single point.

Word forms

perspectograph perspectographs

Etymology

From Latin perspectus, past participle of perspicere (“to look through”) + -graph.

Related words

perspectography
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