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

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 Smith, David Eugene

The gnomon shadow of Jack's Mountain had spread over the entire valley, and its southern limb had crept up Chigringo until its sharply defined line was resting upon the Massingale cabin.

From The City of Numbered Days by Lynde, Francis