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Vanishing Point. A white car—to be specific, a white 1970 Dodge Challenger—speeds down a desert highway toward a roadblock so.

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(pluralvanishing points)

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1. The point in a perspective drawing at which parallellinesreceding from an observer seem to converge.
   • 1884, Wm. M. Thornton, 'Construction of Perspective Projections,' The Annals of Mathematics, vol. 1, no 1, p. 13,

     These formulae . . . give for the vanishing point of a set of parallel lines whose common azimuth is α and declivity δ: η=d tan α, ζ=d tan δ sec α.

2. The situation in which, place where, or point in time when some object or phenomenon is no longer observable or notable.
   • 1762, Samuel Dunn, 'Some Observations of the Planet Venus, on the Disk of the Sun, June 6th, 1761,' Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), vol. 52, p. 192,

     At 8h 35' 4', the least dent possible, quite black, appeared in the sun's limb. And at 8h 35' 6', the limb was restored to its perfect form, there having been a small trembling light, between the narrow watery border of Venus and the vanishing point of contact in the sun's limb for these two seconds of time.

   • 1923, 'Tuberculosis at Bay,' Time, 25 June,

     It might cut the tuberculosis deathrate to the vanishing point.

   • 2003, Sally B. Donnelly, 'The Need for Speed,' Time, 25 Aug.,

     It hit 100 m.p.h. with ease and sped toward the vanishing point down Highway 93A.

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