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

The gnomon was throwing a long shadow westward across the VII.

From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Eaton, Walter Prichard

He drew a line with his pencil where the shadow of the gnomon fell on the circle, that was four o’clock.

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard