Look up: panopticon

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   Panopticon
   Pa·nop'ti·con noun [ New Latin See Pan- , and Optic .] 1. A prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen. 2. A room for the exhibition of novelties.
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   panopticon
   noun a circular prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station; proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791
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   Panopticon
   The `Panopticon` is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (`-opticon`) all (`pan-`) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell whether they are being watched, thereby conveying what one architect has called the `sentiment of an invisible omniscience.` Bentham himself described the Panopticon as `a new mode of obtaining power of mind o...
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   Panopticon
   • (n.) A prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen. • (n.) A room for the exhibition of novelties.
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   panopticon
   architectural form for a prison, the drawings for which were published by Jeremy Bentham in 1791. It consisted of a circular, glass-roofed, tanklike ... [2 related articles]
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