Catascopic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Catascopic is an adjective meaning Related to spying or scouting.
Meaning
Related to spying or scouting.
More Meanings
- Related to aerial photography.
- Of scientific forms of thinking which take wider contexts (groups, society, etc.) as a main frame of reference and study and explain individual behaviour in relationship to this broader context.
Example Sentences
The functionalist approach of societies is catascopic. Social phenomena are conceived of as parts of a whole that are determined by this whole.
To be aggelos, to be an angel, to exercise this angelic office, this catascopic office of spy and scout, he really must be free of all attachments.
New strategies were needed too, from the macroscopic (satellite imaging analysis), through the catascopic (aerial photography by kite; fig. 6, sidebar) to the microscopic (water-sieving and soil sampling [...]).
Antonyms for catascopic
Common opposites include anascopic.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cataractal, cephaloscopic, skiascopic, cranioscopic, periscopical, autoscopic.
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