Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An unbroken view of an entire surrounding area.
- noun A comprehensive presentation; a survey.
- noun A picture or series of pictures representing a continuous scene, often exhibited a part at a time by being unrolled and passed before the spectator.
- noun A mental vision of a series of events.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A complete or entire view; also, a picture representing a wide or general view, as of a tract of country.
- noun A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time by being unrolled and made to pass continuously before the spectator.
- noun A cyclorama: in this sense also called
circular panorama .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A complete view in every direction.
- noun A comprehensive survey of a particular topic; also, a broad view of the development of a series of events.
- noun A picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point.
- noun A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an
unbroken view of anentire surrounding area - noun a
picture orseries of pictures representing acontinuous scene - noun figuratively a
comprehensive survey
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the visual percept of a region
- noun a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The notion of plenitude can be conveyed by employing the term panorama ` an unlimited view in all directions 'in a promotional blurb.
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'Rombo' was one of the first sounds generated by a noise machine, while 'rama' comes from the Greek word panorama, which means an overview of the complexity of human activity, thus making Romborama an appropriate album name.
Grooveeffect 2009
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One of the crucial elements to a natural-looking panorama is even exposure.
Take Great Panoramic Pictures With Any Camera | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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The overall tone of the collection, despite the general grimness of the panorama, is gentle and serene.
Circus Bulgaria by Deyan Enev – review Tibor Fischer 2010
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You both make good points, and the in camera panorama is no doubt a good way to play around with panoramas, but with all the extra power, aswell as the extra options, customisability etc that you get in software instead of in-camera, if you start to get into it, it's really worth taking the step up to the computer dreamlayers
Take Great Panoramic Pictures With Any Camera | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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When in Clun you should also visit the castle (another panorama from the BBC), and John Osborne's grave is just up the road from the bridge.
Clun Bridge 2008
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•View 360-degree panorama from the right-field bleachers
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When in Clun you should also visit the castle (another panorama from the BBC), and John Osborne's grave is just up the road from the bridge.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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The "McMurdo panorama" is a combination of more than 1400 individual pictures which were taken when the lack of sunlight didn't allow the rover to move during the Marsian winter.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Finally, though, if the panorama is implicated in the panoptic fantasy of an all-seeing vision, then the logic of the Diorama (though similarly preoccupied by the enticements of illusion) must be expressed differently.
Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject 2005
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