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Comprehensive, as a view
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panoptic
Word definitions for panoptic in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. including everything visible in one view; "a panoptic aerial photograph of the missile base"; "a panoptic stain used in microscopy" [syn: panoptical ] broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. All-seeing; comprehensive, inclusive.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
panoptic \panoptic\ panoptical \panoptical\adj. Including everying visible in one view; as, a panoptic aerial photograph of the missile base; a panoptic stain used in microscopy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1826, from Greek panoptos "fully visible, seen by all," from panopes "all-seeing," from pan "all" (see pan- ) + optos (see optic ). Related: Panoptical .
Usage examples of panoptic.
Nobody talks about the fact that the crime-ridden alleys are now a panoptic on Nobody talks about the Systematix pilot project, because nobody wants to know.
What had seemed like opaque black glass on the outside allowed panoptic vision from the inside.
It might have been possible for soldiers and diplomats to pose as innocents until the middle of the 1960s, but after that time, and especially after the My Lai massacre of 16 March 1968, when serving veterans reported to their superior officers a number of major atrocities, nobody could reasonably claim to have been uninformed and of those who could, the least believable would be those who - far from the confusion of battle - read and discussed and approved the panoptic reports of the war that were delivered to Washington.