Usually means: Surveillance-based, circular prison design.
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  9. Panopticon (Internet culture), Panopticon (album), Panopticon (band), Panopticon (disambiguation), Panopticon (song), Panopticon, The Panopticon (book): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  11. panopticon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  15. panopticon: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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Definitions from Wiktionary (panopticon)

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.
noun:  (figurative, by extension) A place in which people are subject to constant surveillance at totalitarian command.
noun:  A room for the exhibition of novelties.

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