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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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Stereo-

+ Gr. [GREEK] to cut: cf. F.

stéréotomie

The science or art of cutting solids into certain figures or sections, as arches, and the like; especially, the art of stonecutting.

Noun.

[Gr., fixed; to cut.] The science or art of cutting solids into certain figures or sections, as arches, &c.

stereotomy ‎(uncountable)

(geometry, masonry) The cutting or dissection of solids.
- 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue":
  Here your countenance brightened up, and, perceiving your lips move, I could not doubt that you murmured the word ‘stereotomy’, a term very affectedly applied to this species of pavement.

cutting or dissection of solids