gnomon
Example Sentences
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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
To-morrow he would have to draw a line from that mark straight to the gnomon, and when the shadow fell on that line it would be noon.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard
The gnomon was throwing a long shadow westward across the VII.
From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Eaton, Walter Prichard
