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gnomon
[ noh-mon ]
noun
- the raised part of a sundial that casts the shadow; a style.
- an early astronomical instrument consisting of a vertical shaft, column, or the like, for determining the altitude of the sun or the latitude of a position by measuring the length of its shadow cast at noon.
- Geometry. (formerly) the part of a parallelogram that remains after a similar parallelogram has been taken away from one of its corners.
gnomon
/ ˈnəʊmɒn /
noun
- the stationary arm that projects the shadow on a sundial
- a geometric figure remaining after a parallelogram has been removed from one corner of a larger parallelogram
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Derived Forms
- gnoˈmonically, adverb
- gnoˈmonic, adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gnomon1
1540–50; < Latin gnōmōn pin of a sundial < Greek gnṓmōn literally, interpreter, discerner
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gnomon1
C16: from Latin, from Greek: interpreter, from gignōskein to know
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Example Sentences
But I landed in the dark chamber of a Gnomon, waist-deep in loose wheat.
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I mounted the only unsealed Gnomon and shouted down into its cavernous depths.
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A gnomon or pin erected so as to throw its traveling shadow across a graduated arc constitutes a dial.
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A figure in the shape of a gnomon put round two sides of a square makes it into a larger square.
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And the given absolute magnitude to which it is equal is the rectangle beneath the unequal segments, without gnomon.
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