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

In this case the shadow will probably have been thrown, not by a properly constructed gnomon, but by some building in the neighbourhood.

From The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture by Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter)

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