Definition of "up-close" []

• Being at very close range: provided up-close views of rare fish. (adjective)
• Exhibiting or providing detailed information or firsthand knowledge: "up-close glimpses of the big money, big deals, and big decisions of America's entrepreneurial giants” ( Harvard Business Review). (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Small television monitors hang from the underside of the balcony, allowing congregants to get a better view of the speakers and occasionally themselves as a cameraman makes his way through the crowd, capturing up-close the jubilant scene of worship and praise that is intensifying throughout the sanctuary."
• "Getting an up-close glimpse of the power and magnitude of a volcano—even without its supercharged lightning bursts—made the kind of early Earth chemistry proposed by Miller seem entirely possible."
• "Sheptock has a stark, up-close perspective on the DC government's new War on the Poor as opposed to LBJ's War on Poverty: "To make a long story short, they want to push the poor out of the city," he says."