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

No moving shadow, no gnomon, no sun-dial would be possible.

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.

When it was done the shadow of the gnomon touched the nine, so he shouted to Mark that it was nine o’clock.

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard