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Definition: Gnomon |
GnomonNoun1. Indicator provided by the stationary arm whose shadow indicates the time on the sundial. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gnomon" was first used: 1546. (references) |
Etymology: Gnomon \Gno"mon\, noun. [Latin expression gnomon, Greek one that knows, the index of sundial. See Gnome.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Space | The part of a sundial which casts the shadow, usually a rod or fin pointed at the celestial pole. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Gnomon is the Greek word for the style of a sundial, or any object, commonly a vertical column, the shadow of which was observed in former times in order to learn the altitude of the sun, especially when on the meridian.The art of constructing a gnomon sundial is sometimes termed gnomonics.
In geometry, a gnomon is a plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram
Gnomonic projection is a projection of a sphere in which the centre of sight is the centre of the sphere.
To Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans a gnomon was a basic unit from which a number pattern can be generated. This is described in Figurate numbers, in which squares of numbers are generated from the gnomon of an Odd number.
Reference
Gnomons, from Pharoahs to Fractals, Midhat J. Gazalé, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1999.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gnomon."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Instantaneity | Clock, wall clock, pendulum clock, grandfather's clock, cuckoo clock, alarm clock, clock radio; watch, pocket watch, stopwatch, Swiss watch; atomic clock, digital clock, analog clock, quartz watch, water clock; chronometer, chronoscope, chronograph; repeater; timekeeper, timepiece; dial, sundial, gnomon, horologe, pendulum, hourglass, clepsydra; ghurry. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gnomon |
| English words defined with "gnomon": Azimuth dial ♦ Complement of a parallelogram ♦ Gnomonic projection, Gnomonical, Gnomonics ♦ Substyle, sundial. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "gnomon": Substyle. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Gnomon (2002) | |
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| "Gnomon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gnomon" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
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| Country | Name |
| Greece | Gnomon Construction Company SA |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gnomon | 50 |
copy gnomon | 6 |
gnomon workshop | 4 |
gnomon image | 3 |
3d gnomon | 3 |
gnomon maya | 3 |
china gnomon temple | 2 |
dubliners gnomon paralysis | 2 |
gnomon password | 2 |
gnomon online | 2 |
gnomon picture | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "gnomon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | gnomon. (various references) | |
Greek | γνώμων, ωροδείκτησ (hour hand). (various references) | |
Manx | snaid (hand, index, indicator, needle, pointer, style). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omongnay.(various references) | |
Spanish | estilo (delivery, design, idiom, language, league, look, manner, needle, panache, phrasing, register, stroke, style, stylus, wording). (various references) | |
Turkish | güneş saati mili. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гномон. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cột đ"ng h" mặt trời. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | gnomon. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gnomon": gnomonic, gnomons. (additional references) | |
Words containing "gnomon": pathognomonic. (additional references) | |
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"Gnomon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gnom, gnoman, gnomen, gnomin, Gomov, gromon, ononono, Znojmo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "gnomon" (pronounced 'Gno"mon'): Cacodemon, demon, Hieromnemon, ichneumon, mammon, Persimmon, Phlegmon, Plasmon, Resummon, summon, uncommon. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-m-n-n-o-o" | |
-1 letter: mongo. | |
-2 letters: goon, mono, moon, noon. | |
-3 letters: goo, mog, mon, moo, nog, nom, noo. | |
-4 letters: go, mo, no, om, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-m-n-n-o-o" | |
+1 letter: gnomons, mooning. | |
+2 letters: cognomen, gnomonic, monogeny, monogyny, oncoming. | |
+3 letters: cognomens, cognomina, marooning, monogenic, monsignor, monthlong, motioning, nonmoving, oncomings, unmooring. | |
+4 letters: cognominal, conforming, ironmonger, lampooning, longbowman, longbowmen, monitoring, monogenean, monogenies, monogynies, monogynous, monsignori, monsignors, nonprogram, nonsmoking, unbosoming. | |
+5 letters: coenamoring, compounding, economising, economizing, empoisoning, ignominious, incommoding, ironmongers, ironmongery, monogeneans, monogeneses, monogenesis, monogenetic, monograming, monolingual, monophthong, nondogmatic, nonorgasmic, nonprograms, smoothening. | |
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