pantographic

Variant of pantograph

noun

  1. a mechanical device for reproducing a map, drawing, etc. on the same or a different scale, consisting of a framework of jointed rods in a roughly parallelogram form
  2. any similar framework, as an extensible arm for a telephone, a trolley on an electric locomotive, etc.

Origin: Fr pantographe: see panto- & -graph

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