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pantograph
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A pantograph is a commonly used overhead suspension system for lamps and audio and video monitors in television studios . It is also used on a smaller scale in many photography studios. Using either motor driven cables or a spring system, the pantograph ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. mechanical device used to copy a figure or plan on a different scale
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pantograph \Pan"to*graph\, n. [Panto- + -graph: cf. F. pantographe.] An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale. [Written also pantagraph , and incorrectly pentagraph .] 2. An electrical ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A mechanical linkage based on parallelograms causing two objects to move in parallel; notably as a drawing aid. 2 A pattern printed on a document to reduce the ease of photocopying. 3 (context rail transport English) A similarly-formed conductive device, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A commercial postcard showing 173 at Bispham in its original colour scheme complete with pantograph . 2. ▪ All the cars adopted this livery, and early in 1976 car 5 was fitted with a pantograph . ▪ However there have been two ...
Usage examples of pantograph.
The thing was a pantograph, an adjustable device used by draftsmen for copying plans.
Already set to the gauge that Darr wanted, the pantograph was ready for immediate use.
Holding the plan flat with his hand, Darr gripped another pencil, set vertically in the end of the pantograph arm.
Swinging the pantograph aside, Darr pulled the thumb tacks from the three-inch square.
They were the metal joints of a pantograph, the important link to the entire picture.
Sometimes he copied on paper the involved and delicate pattern left by the ball of the finger, and then vastly enlarged it with a pantograph so that he could examine its web of curving lines with ease and convenience.
I made these pantograph copies last night, and will so swear when I go upon the witness stand.
The pantograph is based on the two ancient principles that the present implies the future, and that the part implies the whole.
The flaw of the pantograph is that cultures and occupations and migration patterns and the rest do not exist in isolation.
Still, no one has yet invented a better descriptive device, and some day the Universal Pantograph will be complete and for the first time man will know definitely what is going to happen next.
In 1457, the first pantograph to come into private hands was delivered to one Clifford Morgenstern, who put it to very different use.
This pantograph described the present and future distribution of artistic traditions.
Instead, he chose to regard the pantograph as a form of fluid art in itself and he wrote a book defining the effective use of color within the model.
They were Civilian Research Specialists imported to Delbalso by the Imperial Government to make subtle star sightings and assessments on behalf of the Universal Pantograph Project.
I fathered upon her in those nights the poker chip, the cash register, the juice extractor, the kazoo, the rubber pretzel, the cuckoo clock, the key chain, the dime bank, the pantograph, the bubble pipe, the punching bag both light and heavy, the inkblot, the nose drop, the midget Bible, the slot-machine slug, and many other useful and humane cultural artifacts, as well as some thousands of children of the ordinary sort.