Definitions for gnomon

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gnomon gno·mon

Spelling: [noh-mon]

IPA: /ˈnoʊ mɒn/

Gnomon is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in gnomon (gmnnoo).

Definitions for gnomon

noun

1. the raised part of a sundial that casts the shadow; a style.
2. an early astronomical instrument consisting of a vertical shaft, column, or the like, for determining the altitude of the sun or the latitude of a position by measuring the length of its shadow cast at noon.
3. Geometry. (formerly) the part of a parallelogram that remains after a similar parallelogram has been taken away from one of its corners.

Origin of gnomon

1540-50; Latin gnōmōn pin of a sundial Greek gnṓmōn literally, interpreter, discerner

Examples for gnomon

I mounted the only unsealed gnomon and shouted down into its cavernous depths.

The other dial had some half-worn hour-marks, but no gnomon.

The terrible motionless time had no gnomon on its dial-plate.

No doubt, however, it was a sun-dial, or gnomon of some kind.

There is therefore in every Parallelogramme a double gnomon; as in these two examples.

But I landed in the dark chamber of a gnomon, waist-deep in loose wheat.

To be sure I wanted a copy of Bengel's "gnomon;" but she was not likely to have that.

OConnor on the gnomon or celestial-index theory of the round towers, 51.

The gnomon is any one of the Diagonall with the two complements.

The belfry and the gnomon, or celestial index, theories are thus exploded.