panopticon
IPA: pˈænɑptˈɪkʌn
noun
- 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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Examples of "panopticon" in Sentences
- Panopticon links here but doesn't explain.
- This is in contrast to the panopticon prisons.
- I'm reliably informed that it wasn't a Panopticon.
- The system was also known as the Panopticon system.
- Panopticon has three platform independent product lines.
- The panopticon gaze is an ideological phrase, a metaphor.
- The Doctor takes the Gun and confronts Stor in the Panopticon.
- During this time he supervised the construction of a Panopticon.
- The Panopticon Gaze in Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
- Breda was the site of one of the first panopticon prison establishments.