gnomon
Example Sentences
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As visitors hover over the work, functioning as a vertical gnomon, their shadows fall onto one of the panels, depending on the time of day.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2023
The pole serves as a gnomon, the part of a sundial that casts a shadow to denote time.
From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2020
A gnomon is the perpendicular part of a sundial, the part that casts a shadow.
From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2018
A figure in the shape of a gnomon put round two sides of a square makes it into a larger square.
From Archimedes Men of Science by Heath, Thomas Little
When it was done the shadow of the gnomon touched the nine, so he shouted to Mark that it was nine o’clock.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard
