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How to pronounce panoptic in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms panoptical


a panoptic aerial photograph of the missile base.
a panoptic stain used in microscopy.
Type Words
Synonyms across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, extensive, wide


a panoptic study of Soviet nationality.

Examples of panoptic

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Panoptic Security is a startup company that provides low-cost solutions to computer security problems for small business.
From the sltrib.com
Standing with the Ashmolean's director on the second-floor landing, the effect is almost dizzyingly panoptic.
From the independent.co.uk
The Burnett view is both panoptic and microscopic.
From the guardian.co.uk
Snow-laced massifs vault into a dark-blue sky and green hills cascade to the valleys below, a panoptic of edelweiss and immortality.
From the online.wsj.com
Panoptic provides an online tool that guides the client through the process of complying with Payment Card Industry security standards.
From the sltrib.com
Some time subsequent to Shakespeare's expiry, Jonson tackled the panoptic task of setting down the First Folio and casting away the originals.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In the panoptic culture we have created, in which cameras run from every possible angle day and night, we are always all enjoying our 15 minutes.
From the nytimes.com
Probably the best-known literary account of this grand historic irony is Midnight's Children, the panoptic novel that introduced Salman Rushdie to a global audience.
From the theatlantic.com
But readers who love his broad panoptic sweep over the course of human history may feel its absence in the early chapters, which smack a little too much of an anthropology primer.
From the independent.co.uk
More examples
  • Including everything visible in one view; "a panoptic aerial photograph of the missile base"; "a panoptic stain used in microscopy"
  • Across-the-board: broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"
  • The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in 1785. ...
  • Panopticism is a social theory originally developed by French philosopher Michel Foucault in his book, Discipline and Punish.
  • Panopsia is a genus of moths of the Crambidae family.
  • (Panoptics) Filming the public with ubiquitous surveillance and satellite cams by private and national interests. Realtime optical informing and exposure. Global telesurveillance is used on enemies and friendly populations. Democracy sacrificed to total visibility.