Examples of gnomon in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The gnomon, or the shadow-casting protrusion, is 35 feet tall with a shadow twice that length. — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 15 Nov. 2021 But the most original marketing device was a giant sundial, its vertical monument (called a gnomon) 28 feet long and 17 feet high and standing in a circle 34 feet in diameter. — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 July 2021 The pole serves as a gnomon, the part of a sundial that casts a shadow to denote time. — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2020 There are many types of sundials, but in general each consists of a gnomon, a thin rod that casts a shadow onto a dial, and a flat plate or platform. — Megan Arnett, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2018 The original clock is missing its gnomon, the part of a sundial that casts a shadow, but an 18th-century museum curator described it having one in the shape of a pig’s tail, so Parslow re-created that, too. — National Geographic, 19 Jan. 2017

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