Definitions for gnomons

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gnomons gno·mon

Spelling: [noh-mon]

IPA: /ˈnoʊ mɒn/

Gnomons is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in gnomons (gmnnoos).

Definitions for gnomons

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 gnomons

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

Examples for gnomons

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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