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pantometer|pænˈtɒmɪtə(r)|
Also erron. pantameter.
[ad. F. pantomètre (1675 Bullet (title) Usage du pantomètre), f. Gr. παντο- panto-, all + µέτρον measure.]
(See quots.)
1696Phillips (ed. 5), Pantometer, an Instrument in Geometry that serves to measure all sorts of Angles, Lengths and Heighths. 1823Crabb, Pantometre. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Pantometer, an instrument for taking angles and elevations, and measuring distances.
b. Applied to other instruments.
(a) ‘A graduated level’ (Gwilt Archit. 1842–76). (b) An instrument for the mechanical production of portraits in profile (Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895). |