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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[

Panto-

-graph

: cf. F.

pantographe

An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.

[Written also

pantagraph

, and incorrectly

pentagraph

Skew pantograph

a kind of pantograph for drawing a copy which is inclined with respect to the original figure; – also called

plagiograph

Noun.

[Gr. all, and to describe.] A mathematical instrument so formed as to copy any sort of drawing or design.