vanishing point: Meaning and Definition of

van'ishing point"

Pronunciation: [key]
  1. a point of disappearance, cessation, or extinction: His patience had reached the vanishing point.
  2. (in the study of perspective in art) that point toward which receding parallel lines appear to converge.
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