gnomon in English

noun
1
the projecting piece on a sundial that shows the time by the position of its shadow.
The problem is that the gardeners have been caught on the gnomon of their own sundial.
2
the part of a parallelogram left when a similar parallelogram has been taken from its corner.
Revolve the gnomon about its vertex and it can draw a circle; combine two gnomons and they form a square.

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1. The golden gnomon is also uniquely identified as a triangle having its three angles in 1:1:3 proportion.

2. We have just added many new sources, including The Expositor's Bible Commentary, Bengel's Gnomon, Lange's Commentary, Hastings Great Texts and many more

3. In Diogenes’ work, Anaximander might have been the inventor of the gnomon, “the raised piece of a sundial whose shadow indicates the sun’s position”, as

4. His Gnomon exerted considerable influence on exegesis in Germany, and John Wesley translated most of its notes and incorporated them into his Annotatory Notes upon the New Testament (London, 1755)

5. He also used the length of the shadow cast by a gnomon, or surveying staff, to calculate the angle of elevation of the midday sun on a known date, and from that he estimated how far north he had traveled.