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ichnograph

ichnograph noun: the groundplan for a building.

Noun

ichnograph (plural ichnographs)

  1. The groundplan for a building.
    • Like modern conspiracy theorists Natali's characters turn towards the ichnograph for answers, they try to see the world from the perspective of God. Here, Natali confronts his characters with an ironic conundrum, namely that it was the attempt to see the world from the perspective of God that...(Can we date this quote?), Mark Featherstone, “Cracking Cube: Cryptology And Ichnography”, in University of Victoria
    • The analogy between the ichnograph - scenograph relation and the independent - dependent relation between God and particular minds clearly struck Leibniz as most beautiful and appropriate .2015, Catherine Wilson, Leibniz's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study, page 68

Forms of ichnograph

pluralichnographs

Origin of ichnograph

From ichno- + -graph.

Questions about ichnograph

What does ichnograph mean?
Ichnograph means the groundplan for a building.
What part of speech is ichnograph?
Ichnograph is a noun.
What is the plural of ichnograph?
The plural of ichnograph is ichnographs.

Words near ichnograph in the dictionary

  1. ichnogeneric
  2. ichnogenetic
  3. ichnogenus
  4. ichnogram
  5. ichnograms
  6. ichnograph
  7. ichnographic
  8. ichnographical
  9. ichnographically
  10. ichnographies
  11. ichnographs

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