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

This is the gnomon arranged in the dome of the Cathedral by the shadow of which it is said that he could determine midday to within half a second.

From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by Walsh, James J.

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 Blake, John F.