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perspections

perspections is the plural of perspection.

Meaning of perspection

Noun

perspection (countable and uncountable, plural perspections)

  1. contemplation; scrutiny
  2. (rare) perspective
    • Now this set of twelve triangles has the following remarkable property — any two triangles in the same row are six-fold perspective; any two triangles in the same column are four-fold perspective with three centers of perspection on a line […]1931, American Journal of Mathematics, page 340
  3. (rare) perspicuity
    • […] he never spent his ammunition in useless parade, but tried on the proper moment, with the keenest perspection, to make his attack with success, which ever crowned his endeavours.1790, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 68, page 671

Questions about perspections

What is perspections the plural of?
Perspections is the plural of perspection.

Words near perspections in the dictionary

  1. persophone
  2. persophones
  3. Persosphere
  4. persp
  5. perspection
  6. perspections
  7. perspectival
  8. perspectivalisation
  9. perspectivalism
  10. perspectivalization
  11. perspectivation

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