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How to pronounce “panopticon”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of panopticon with real speech in context.
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Jeremy Benton proposed the panopticon. The panopticon is the concept of a prison
- Definition summary
- (historical) A kind of projector in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Jeremy Benton proposed the panopticon. The panopticon is the concept of a prison
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (historical) A kind of projector in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- A type of prison where all the cells are visible from the center, particularly if it is not possible for those in a cell to know if they are being watched.
- (figurative, by extension) A place in which people are subject to constant surveillance at totalitarian command.
- A room for the exhibition of novelties.
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