Index of English words, starting with "pe"

(1) - Perspective (a.) A drawing in linear perspective.
(2) - Perspective (a.) The art and the science of so delineating objects that they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; -- called also linear perspective.
(3) - Perspective (a.) The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects, by means of which the eye recognized them as being at a more or less measurable distance. Hence, aerial perspective, the assumed greater vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects.
(4) - Perspective (a.) That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista.
(5) - Perspective (a.) A glass through which objects are viewed.
(6) - Perspective (n.) Pertaining to the art, or in accordance with the laws, of perspective.
(7) - Perspective (n.) Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.

(1) - Perspicacious (a.) Fig.: Of acute discernment; keen.
(2) - Perspicacious (a.) Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight.

(1) - Perspicacity (n.) The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment.