Synoptic may refer to:Synoptic scale meteorology, a meteorological analysis over an area about 1,000 kilometres (621 mi) or more wide Synoptic Gospels, in the New Testament of the Bible, the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke Synoptic philosophy, wisdom emerging from a coherent understanding of everything together Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a wide-field reflecting telescope, currently under construction, that will photograph the entire available sky every few nights SynOptics, an early computer-network equipment vendor that operated from 1985 until 1994, based in Santa Clara, California Surface synoptic observations or SYNOP, a numerical code used for reporting weather observations Synopticon, "surveillance of the few by the many", a reverse of Bentham's Panopticism