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
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 Thomas Little Heath
Proclus speaks of such a line as a gnomon, a common name for the perpendicular on a sundial, which casts the shadow by which the time of day is known.
From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith
