"rule of thirds" meaning in English

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Noun

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  1. (photography, film, visual arts) A normative rule that an image should be mentally or representationally divided in three horizontally and diagonally, and that the focus of the image should not be in the center of the resulting shape. Categories (topical): Film, Photography
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