sundial|sundials in English

noun

instrument which indicates the time of day by means of a shadow cast by a vertical shaft onto a flat circular disk

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1. Bifilar sundials can be as diverse as classical sundial, with in addition to all variations introduced by the height of …

2. Architectonicid snails are also called sundials, for their resemblance with the timekeeping sundials

3. Sundial stolen A 30-INCH sundial, valued at ￡500, was stolen from a garden in Upper Froyle on Friday night.

4. The sundial was one of the earliest and simplest .

5. Male speaker It's an artifact and a working sundial.

6. Does your sundial here have like an alarm clock?

7. What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

8. Like a giant sundial, it demarcates both space and time.

9. The hands are actually modeled after the shadow on a sundial.

10. Anaximander Mosaic (cropped, with sundial).jpg 367 × 375; 61 KB

11. The sundial is the oldest known device for the measurement of time.

12. A device, such as a clock or sundial, used in telling time.

13. A sundial measures the movement of the sun across the sky each day .

14. A sundial measures the movement of the sun across the sky each day.

15. The Samrat Yantra: a 89 foot high and 148 foot wide sundial.

16. Moonlight was frosting the dew, and an old sundial threw a long shadow.

17. You've made the sundial, and now it's time to put it to work.

18. Anaximander's device was a sundial, then, one which tracked seasons rather than hours

19. Sadly, however, subsidence of the building means that the sundial is no longer accurate.

20. The Bifilar sundial replaces the style by two threads that cross at different height

21. A Bifilar dial is a type of sundial invented by the German mathematician Hugo Michnik in 1922

22. In today's experiment you will make your own sundial and use it to tell the time.

23. Architectonicids are popularly known as “sundials” (sometimes they are also called “staircase shells”) due to the discoid outline of their shells.

24. Virtually every facet of monastic life was regulated either by the hour-glass or sundial; later by the clock.

25. When the 28-bedroom Sundial opened it was the first new hotel in the town for 240 years.