Etymology

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Today it means: A kind of projector in the 18th and 19th centuries. Full definition →

Ancient Greek πᾶν
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  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromπᾶν“all”
  2. English todaypanopticon

From Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân, “all”) + ὀπτικός (optikós, “visible”). Coined by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in 1787.

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