ichnograph

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noun

The groundplan for a building.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounichnograph (plural ichnographs)

plural ichnographs

  1. The groundplan for a building.

    The analogy between the ichnograph - scenograph relation and the independent - dependent relation between God and particular minds clearly struck Leibniz as most beautiful and appropriate .

    2015, Catherine Wilson, Leibniz's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study, page 68
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    Like modern conspiracy theorists Natali's characters turn towards the ichnograph for answers, they try to see the world from the perspective of God. Here, Natali confronts his characters with an ironic conundrum, namely that it was the attempt to see the world from the perspective of God that created the alien world in the first place.

    (Can we date this quote?), Mark Featherstone, “Cracking Cube: Cryptology And Ichnography”, in University of Victoria

Origin

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APA

ichnograph. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ichnograph

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“ichnograph.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ichnograph. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ichnograph,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ichnograph.

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