VANISHING POINT


Meaning of VANISHING POINT in English

(~s)

1.

The ~ is the point in the distance where parallel lines seem to meet.

The highway stretched out ahead of me until it narrowed to a ~ some miles away.

N-COUNT: usu sing

2.

If you say that something has reached ~, you mean it has become very small or unimportant.

By 1973, this gap had narrowed almost to ~...

N-UNCOUNT

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