stereotomy

From French stéréotomie, from Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”) + -τομία (-tomía, “-cut”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /stɛɹiːˈɒtəmi/

stereotomy (uncountable)

1. (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.

• osteometry