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GNOMONICS

Definition: GNOMONICS

GNOMONICS

Noun

1. The art or science of dialing, or of constructing dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Gnomonics \Gno*mon"ics\, noun. [See Gnomonic.]. (references)

 

Crosswords: GNOMONICS

English words defined with "GNOMONICS": Gnomonist, Gnomonology. (references)

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Rhyming with "GNOMONICS"

Words rhyming with "GNOMONICS" (pronounced 'Gno*mon"ics'): Aerodonetics, Aerodynamics, Aeromechanics, Aeronautics, Aerostatics, Agronomics, Alphabetics, Anagogics, Analytics, Apologetics, Architectonics, Aretaics, astrophysics, Athletics, Biostatics, Calisthenics, Cataphonics, Catechetics, Ceramics, Chromatics, Cinematics, Civics, Conics, Cynegetics, Enclitics, ethics, Geodetics, Geoponics, graphics, harmonics, HOMILETICS, hygienics, hysterics, kinematics, kinetics, Lithochromatics, Logics, Loxodromics, macrobiotics, magnetics, mathematics, mechanics, Medics, Melodics, metaphysics, Metempirics, microphonics, mnemonics, Myodynamics, Numismatics. (additional references)

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Anagrams: GNOMONICS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: oncomings.

Words within the letters "c-g-i-m-n-n-o-o-s"

-1 letter: gnomonic, oncoming.

-2 letters: comings, consign, gnomons, mignons, mooning, noncoms, noosing.

-3 letters: cogons, coigns, coming, congos, coning, conins, cooing, cosign, gnomic, gnomon, gonion, incogs, isogon, mignon, mongos, mooing, noncom, nosing, onions, simoon.

-4 letters: cions, cogon, coign, coins, congo, conin, conns, coons, gismo, goons, icons, incog, mongo, monos, moons, nomoi, nomos, noons, onion, osmic, scion, sonic.

 Words containing the letters "c-g-i-m-n-n-o-o-s"
 

+2 letters: economising, nonorgasmic.

 

+3 letters: nonconsuming.

 

+4 letters: commissioning, meningococcus, noncomplyings, overconsuming.

 

+5 letters: mispronouncing, uncompromising.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GNOMONICS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 4E 4F 4D 4F 4E 49 43 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    -.    ---    --    ---    -.    ..    -.-.    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01001110 01001111 01001101 01001111 01001110 01001001 01000011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

G N O M O N I C S

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 004E 004F 004D 004F 004E 0049 0043 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

414849474948433753

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