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
Bevis drew the line from the gnomon to the mark he had made the night before, this was the noon or meridian.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Richard Jefferies
By the observation of the gnomon at mid-day on the day of the solstice he determined the obliquity of the ecliptic in his epoch.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by John F. Blake
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