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PANTOMETRY — [Noun] A proposed scheme for universal measurement or a fixation on quantifying all phenomena. Formed within English from the combining forms panto- (from Greek πᾶς, παντός, meaning "all, every") and -metry (from Greek -μετρία, meaning "measurement"). Unlike metrology, the sober science of measurement, or quantification, the neutral act of assigning numbers, pantometry is an ideology—a zealous, often melancholic ambition to impose the grid of number upon the entirety of existence. It is the scent of a rainstorm analyzed for its constituent ions, the exact weight of a regret, and the cubic volume of a silence held between two people; its great, quiet tragedy is the belief that to measure a thing is to understand it, mistaking the metric for the meaning.