1) Area 2) Penal imprisonment 1) Prison 2) Saleroom 3) Salesroom 4) Showroom 5) Viewer 
The Panopticon is a type of institutional building designed by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century. The concept of the design is to allow a single watchman to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) inmates of an institution without the inmates being able to tell whether or not they are being watched. Although...[Internet culture] Third Tuesday logo ...
prison where all inmates can be watched from one point
• (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.
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]
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. 
noun a circular prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station; proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791
an area where everything is visible