Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Panopticon \Pa*nop"ti*con\, n. [NL. See {Pan-}, and {Optic}.]
[1913 Webster]
1. A prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of
the prisoners at all times, without being seen.
[1913 Webster]
2. A room for the exhibition of novelties.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
panopticon
n 1: an area where everything is visible
2: a circular prison with cells distributed around a central
surveillance station; proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791
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