vanishing point

NOUN
  1. the point beyond which something disappears or ceases to exist
  2. the appearance of a point on the horizon at which parallel lines converge
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How To Use vanishing point In A Sentence

  • A pin at the central vanishing point would have been as useful here as it would for perspective drawings set out mathematically.
  • The highway stretched out ahead of me until it narrowed to a vanishing point some miles away.
  • The reason we have perspective with a vanishing point is that it came from optics. Times, Sunday Times
  • The former limit is reached in anguish, madness, or the agony of death, when the accidental flux of things in contradiction has reached its maximum or vanishing point, so that the contradiction and the flux themselves disappear by diremption. The Life of Reason
  • The highway stretched out ahead of me until it narrowed to a vanishing point some miles away.
  • The distance points are spaced equally on either side of the vanishing point.
  • There are many offences for which any element of stigma is diluted almost to vanishing point, as with speeding on the roads, illegal parking, riding a bicycle without lights, or dropping litter.
  • All of these have gone nearly to the vanishing point, and the middle class population of all that portion of Europe, whose currency has largely depreciated, is being slowly impoverished, weakened, demoralized, and is becoming a vanishing factor. The European Situation
  • Trade unions do and they are disappearing to vanishing point for their trouble. Times, Sunday Times
  • And even this minuscule probability will diminish to the vanishing point as researchers improve nonnuclear interception technologies.
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