Foreshortening is valid Scrabble Word

Is foreshortening a scrabble word?
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Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is foreshortening valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

14 letters word
21 points in Scrabble
23 points in WWF

Definitions for FORESHORTENING in dictionary:

VERB:

prematurely or dramatically shorten or reduce (something) in time or scale
portray or show (an object or view) as closer than it really is or as having less depth or distance, as an effect of perspective or the angle of vision

NOUN:

a shortening by proportionately contracting in the direction of depth so that an illusion of projection or extension in space is obtained
Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to shorten by proportionately contracting in the direction of depth so that an illusion of projection or extension in space is obtained

Words related to FORESHORTENING

foreshorten17

Words that contain FORESHORTENING

foreshortenings22

How to use FORESHORTENING in a sentence

Statues are given absolutely well, except where there is much foreshortening to be done, as in this of the Torso, where you see the thigh is unnaturally lengthened.
The laws of perspective and foreshortening were worked out by Paolo Uccello and Brunelleschi.
As instances of still bolder attempts at unusual attitudes, and at the same time of a certain amount of foreshortening, two further illustrations are appended.
In this way the foreshortening effect of time was excluded.
The prominence of the mountains vanished, not only through the foreshortening, but also in the dazzling radiation produced by the direct reflection of the solar rays.
The foreshortening produced by the lens system also contributes to this illusion.
The foreshortening of the right arm and hand of Icarus is a clever piece of technical workmanship.
A stupendous performance, which shows what marvellous power was in this man of turning lines in foreshortening and perspective.
It is curious to observe that the search for slight deformity is so constant as to make use, for its purposes, not of action only, but of perspective foreshortening.

Similar words containing SHORTEN without suffix ing and without prefix fore

shorten10 shortens11 shortened13 shortener12 shorteners13 shortening14 foreshorten17 shortenings15 foreshortens18 foreshortened20 foreshortenings22

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