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

Illustration of vanishing point

• V vanishing point 1

Examples of vanishing point in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In time the black trunks thinned, giving way to a delicate stand of birch trees, and oddly, a path that stretched to a vanishing point in each direction. — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025

Columns and beams around it repeat and recede to a vanishing point, producing a mesmerizing symmetry. — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 30 June 2025

This perception, in which lines in two-dimensional space appear to meet at a point called the vanishing point, is often used in art to portray relative distances. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2024

But that neat dichotomy between government and business has blurred to the vanishing point. — Peter Georgescu, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1797, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for vanishing point

• adjoint
• anoint
• appoint
• checkpoint
• conjoint
• disjoint
• endpoint
• gunpoint
• midpoint
• nonpoint
• pinpoint
• standpoint

Kids Definition

vanishing point

noun

: a point at which parallel lines seem to meet (as in a drawing)