Meanings
nounstereotomy (uncountable)
- uncountablebusinessThe cutting or dissection of solids.
Here your countenance brightened up, and, perceiving your lips move, I could not doubt that you murmured the word ‘stereotomy’, a term very affectedly applied to this species of pavement.
1841, Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Origin
- Frenchstéréotomie
- Englishstereotomy
From French stéréotomie, equivalent to stereo- + -tomy.
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French stéréotomie
- stéréotomiecutting or dissection of solids
German Stereotomie
- Stereotomiecutting or dissection of solids
Italian stereotomia
- stereotomiacutting or dissection of solids
Spanish estereotomia
- estereotomiacutting or dissection of solids
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APA
stereotomy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stereotomy
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“stereotomy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stereotomy. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stereotomy,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stereotomy.
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