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The art or technique of cutting solids (especially the art of stonecutting).

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Usage examples (11)
  • I knew that you could not say to yourself 'stereotomy' without being brought to think of atomies, and thus of the theories of Epicurus; and since, when we discussed this...
  • Note 183: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, stereometry is "the art or science of measuring solids," whereas stereotomy is "the art of cutting stones or other...
  • "Pacioli believed that stereotomy, the careful 'geometrizing' of stone through cutting and polishing, could transmute and spiritualize lowly matter, evoking St. John's...
  • 'What with their courses of perspective, of descriptive geometry, of stereotomy, of building, and of the history of art -- ah! upon my word, they do make one blacken...
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