"perspectograph" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: perspectographs [plural]
Etymology: From Latin perspectus, past participle of perspicere (“to look through”) + -graph. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|perspectus}} Latin perspectus, {{af|en|-graph}} -graph Head templates: {{en-noun}} perspectograph (plural perspectographs)
  1. 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 a single point.
    Sense id: en-perspectograph-en-noun-4LxoNIMo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -graph

Inflected forms

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