Foreshortened in A Sentence

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    The usual form of ice-crystals in clouds is a right hexagonal prism, which may be elongated as a needle or foreshortened like a thin plate.

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    As the line of centres becomes more ob.ique, the surface is seen more and more foreshortened and the brilliancy diminishes continuously.

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    For the rest of the time, we have to do the best we can with greatly foreshortened vision.

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    So difference is foreshortened by rapid communication, and the world appears less strange.

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    Animal and human figures are rounded and foreshortened, although she occasionally creates elongated designs on long, narrow strips of canvas.

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    As has been explained the mean distance of a group of stars can be readily determined from the parallactic motion, which, when not foreshortened, is approximately four times the parallax; but to obtain a complete knowledge of the distribution of stars it is necessary to know, not merely the mean parallax of the group, but also the frequency law, i.e.