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gnomon
noun as in timepiece
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But I landed in the dark chamber of a Gnomon, waist-deep in loose wheat.
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I mounted the only unsealed Gnomon and shouted down into its cavernous depths.
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A gnomon or pin erected so as to throw its traveling shadow across a graduated arc constitutes a dial.
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A figure in the shape of a gnomon put round two sides of a square makes it into a larger square.
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And the given absolute magnitude to which it is equal is the rectangle beneath the unequal segments, without gnomon.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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