Usually means: Perspective distortion of an object.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word foreshortening:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. foreshortening: Merriam-Webster
  2. foreshortening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. foreshortening: Vocabulary.com
  4. foreshortening: Wordnik
  5. foreshortening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. foreshortening: Wiktionary
  7. Foreshortening, foreshortening: Dictionary.com
  8. Foreshortening: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Foreshortening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. foreshortening: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Foreshortening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. foreshortening: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. foreshortening: FreeDictionary.org
  14. foreshortening: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. foreshortening: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Foreshortening: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists
  3. Foreshortening: art glossary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foreshortening: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. foreshortening: Medical dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  2. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See foreshorten as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (foreshortening)

noun:  (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.
noun:  A similar contracted appearance in film or photography, etc.

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