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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Including everything visible in one view.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Seeing everything or seeing all things at once.
  2. Showing or exhibiting everything; allowing everything to be seen.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. All-seeing; comprehensive, inclusive.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Including everying visible in one view.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. including everything visible in one view
  2. adj. broad in scope or content

Etymologies

  1. From pan- + optic. (Wiktionary)
  2. From Greek panoptos, fully visible : pan-, with respect to everything, fully; see pan- + optos, visible; see okw- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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