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Webster 1913 Edition


Perspectograph

Per-spec′to-graph

(pẽr-spĕk′tō̍-grȧf)
,
Noun.
[L.
perspectus
(p. p. of
perspicere
to look through) +
-graph
.]
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 some one point.