vanishing point
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.27 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The point in a perspective drawing at which parallel lines receding from an observer seem to converge.
noun
The situation in which, place where, or point in time when some object or phenomenon is no longer observable or notable.
Example Sentences
- "These formulae . . . give for the vanishing point of a set of parallel lines whose common azimuth is α and declivity δ: η=d tan α, ζ=d tan δ sec α."
- "At 8h 35' 4", the least dent possible, quite black, appeared in the sun's limb. And at 8h 35' 6", the limb was restored to its perfect form, there having been a small trembling light, between the narrow watery border of Venus and the vanishing point of contact in the sun's limb for these two seconds of time."
- "It might cut the tuberculosis deathrate to the vanishing point."
- "It hit 100 m.p.h. with ease and sped toward the vanishing point down Highway 93A."