<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Pathology: A technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface.</li><li>Compare: Aerial perspective, linear perspective.</li><li>A picture employing this technique, especially one in which it is prominent: An architect's perspective of a house.</li><li>A visible scene, especially one extending to a distance; vista: A perspective on the main axis of an estate.</li><li>The state of existing in space before the eye: The elevations look all right, but the building's composition is a failure in perspective.</li><li>The state of one's ideas, the facts known to one, etc., in having a meaningful interrelationship: You have to live here a few years to see local conditions in perspective.</li><li>The faculty of seeing all the relevant data in a meaningful relationship: Your data is admirably detailed but it lacks perspective.</li><li>A mental view or prospect: The dismal perspective of terminally ill patients.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Of or relating to the art of perspective, or represented according to its laws.</li></ul>