PANOPTICON


Meaning of PANOPTICON in English

/pan op"ti kon'/ , n.

a building, as a prison, hospital, library, or the like, so arranged that all parts of the interior are visible from a single point.

[ 1760-70; PAN- + Gk optikón sight, seeing (neut. of optikós; see OPTIC) ]

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