foreshortening in English

verb
1
portray or show (an object or view) as closer than it is or as having less depth or distance, as an effect of perspective or the angle of vision.
seen from the road, the mountain is greatly foreshortened
verb

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1. We have foreshortening in this left leg.

2. She was actually foreshortening, as skilled portrait painters do.

3. To see why these images are not true perspective Anamorphoses, see the description of foreshortening

4. Morse code Abbreviations are used to speed up Morse communications by foreshortening textual words and phrases

5. Brachycephaly—the foreshortening or flattening of the facial skeleton—is a mutation that is selected for in some dog breeds, such as the French Bulldog, British Bulldog and Pug [].Since the BBC television program Pedigree Dogs Exposed aired in the UK in 2008, highlighting breed-related welfare issues, there has been media and scholarly attention on the welfare problems