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PERSPECTIVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Synonyms:
linear perspective; perspective
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("perspective" is a kind of...):
appearance; visual aspect (outward or visible aspect of a person or thing)
Meronyms (parts of "perspective"):
vanishing point (the appearance of a point on the horizon at which parallel lines converge)
apparent horizon; horizon; sensible horizon; skyline; visible horizon (the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet)
picture plane (the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A way of regarding situations or topics etc.
Example:
consider what follows from the positivist view
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("perspective" is a kind of...):
orientation (an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "perspective"):
bird's eye view; panoramic view (a situation or topic as if viewed from an altitude or distance)
futurism (the position that the meaning of life should be sought in the future)
cutting edge; forefront; vanguard (the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field)
paradigm (the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time)
light (a particular perspective or aspect of a situation)
sight (a range of mental vision)
Weltanschauung; world view (a comprehensive view of the world and human life)
straddle (a noncommittal or equivocal position)
Context examples:
Your sessions can bring you to a new perspective and a comforting sense of calm.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
"This study provides a new perspective on the largest mass extinction event in Earth's history," said Dena Smith, a program director in NSF's Division of Earth Sciences.
(Mass extinction of land and sea biodiversity 250 million years ago not simultaneous, National Science Foundation)
Further work is needed on the effect of the residential environment on mental health from a gender perspective.
(Depression - men far more at risk than women in deprived areas, University of Cambridge)
This new perspective on microbial diversity incorporates both local and global scales.
(Study analyzing cells' blueprints reveals new patterns in the global distribution and diversity of ocean microbes, National Science Foundation)
To put it into perspective, Neptune is about 30 AU away, the Voyager 1 probe is currently just under 140 AU away, and the nearest known star Proxima Centauri is 268,770 AU away.
(Our Sun Could Have Been Born With an Evil Twin Called "Nemesis", The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Not just the economic cost, “but also the cost that you have to pay from an ecological, environmental perspective.”
(Study: Earth’s Night Skies Getting Brighter, VOA)
From a public health perspective, this amount of physical activity was achieved by 70% of all ADAD individuals participating at the DIAN study.
(Rare Alzheimer's Disease Patients May Delay Cognitive Decline with Exercise, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The work draws attention to a new way of thinking about heart disease with a much longer-term perspective, focusing on prevention rather than treatment.
(Heart disease risk begins in the womb, University of Cambridge)
According to a survey published in 2017 by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, 84% of surveyed Britons did not wash their hands well enough from a hygiene perspective — at least twenty seconds with soap and water.
(Wash your hands or else spread superbug E. coli, say scientists, Wikinews)
The process of transforming sets of image data from different times or perspectives into one coordinate system.
(Image Registration, NCI Thesaurus)
