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
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 Richard Jefferies
Its inscription, "Time waits for No Man," is an old punning device on the word gnomon.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle
