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vanishing point
noun
1
: a point at which receding parallel lines seem to meet when represented in linear perspective
2
: a point at which something disappears or ceases to exist
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The three meet in a vanishing point at the bottom edge as if a textbook illustration for Renaissance one-point perspective.
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Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2024
Ours pointed out fluffy booby hatchlings in the low branches of trees on one motu, and showed us up close the massive coconut crabs whose kind is coming back from the vanishing point.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
Customers complained of vanishing points on their accounts, prompting the company to contact the Michigan State Police.
—Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 4 Jan. 2024
Perpendicular to the tracks is a kilometer-long road that accommodates recurring police car chases that go out into what looks like a matte painting but is actually a vanishing point where the manufactured desert meets the Spanish sky.
—Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
But years of relentless human population growth have driven many to the vanishing point: Florida is home to sixty-seven species of threatened and endangered animals, among the highest numbers in the continental U.S.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
Together the vanishing points define the viewpoint of the observer.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
Historic Black communities in Fayetteville are down to the vanishing point, panelists were told.
—Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online, 23 June 2023
These renderings can proceed in different ways, determined by the number of vanishing points employed.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2024
Ours pointed out fluffy booby hatchlings in the low branches of trees on one motu, and showed us up close the massive coconut crabs whose kind is coming back from the vanishing point.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
Customers complained of vanishing points on their accounts, prompting the company to contact the Michigan State Police.
—Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 4 Jan. 2024
Perpendicular to the tracks is a kilometer-long road that accommodates recurring police car chases that go out into what looks like a matte painting but is actually a vanishing point where the manufactured desert meets the Spanish sky.
—Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
But years of relentless human population growth have driven many to the vanishing point: Florida is home to sixty-seven species of threatened and endangered animals, among the highest numbers in the continental U.S.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
Together the vanishing points define the viewpoint of the observer.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
Historic Black communities in Fayetteville are down to the vanishing point, panelists were told.
—Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online, 23 June 2023
These renderings can proceed in different ways, determined by the number of vanishing points employed.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
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“Vanishing point.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vanishing%20point. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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