All 5 Uses

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Flags of Our Fathers
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As the Marines climbed, they beheld Iwo Jima for the first time from the perspective of the Japanese.†
Chpt 11. *

perspective = a particular way of seeing or thinking about things
To put that into perspective: The Marines were awarded eighty-four Medals of Honor in World War II.†
Chpt 1. *
They got a different perspective when one of the crewmen, thankful he had been spared a crashlanding in the Pacific, shouted: "Thank God for you Marines!"†
Chpt 13.
Yet from a boy's perspective in this small, tree-shaded town, it might as well have been fought in the Middle Ages—a vivid, glorious, exciting story, filled with images of great battleships and planes and tanks and men charging forth in rounded helmets, all backgrounded somehow by the Stars and Stripes.†
Chpt 14.
From the perspective of half a century, Leo Ryan permitted himself to revisit that hot windless day.†
Chpt 18.

Definitions:

(1) (perspective as in: Look at it from her perspective)
a particular way of seeing or thinking about things
(2) (perspective as in: Keep it in perspective)
a sensible view of a situation that considers its different parts in a balanced way
(3) (perspective as in: perspective in art)
giving a 2-dimensional picture a 3-dimensional appearance by making parts that are farther away look smaller than things that are close; OR a picture drawn in such a manner
(4) (perspective as in: a perspective of the entire block)
a view -- often stressing that the view is different from a view from another location
(5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, in classic literature, perspective glass or perspectives can refer to a small telescope. More specialized senses of perspective are found in geometry, sound engineering, and philosophy. Consult a comprehensive dictionary if you wish to see those. All the common senses have to do with the way something is viewed.