gnomon

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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

Then came the necessity of finding out about the inclination or obliquity of the ecliptic, and this is where the gnomon was employed.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck

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