A pantograph is a mechanical connected linkage of a writing instrument, like a pen, such that the movement of one pen, in tracing an image, produces identical movements in a second pen.
Pantograph may also refer to:
Pantograph (lighting suspension), an overhead lighting system used in television and photography Pantograph punch, a type of keypunch used in early data processing machines Pantograph (rail), a device that collects electric current from overhead lines for electric trains or trams Pantographia, a 1799 work on writing systems and typography by Edmund Fry Pantographic knife, a folding knife whose blade is opened by a unique scissors method Delay differential equation, also known as a “pantograph equation” Void pantograph, a method of security printing aimed at foiling photographic duplication
See also The Pantagraph, a daily newspaper that serves Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, United States