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(pan äp′tik)

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including in one view everything within sight

Origin: pan- + optic

See panoptic in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Including everything visible in one view.

Origin:

Origin: From Greek panoptos, fully visible

Origin: : pan-, with respect to everything, fully; see Pan-

Origin: + optos, visible; see ok^w- in Indo-European roots

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