GNOMON

Gnomon

A gnomon 1 NO-mon, from Greek, gnōmōn, literally "one that knows or examines", is the part of a sundial that casts the shadow.

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gnomon

Noun

  1. The pointer on a sundial.
  2. A plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram.


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