n.
- An object, such as the style of a sundial, that projects a shadow used as an indicator.
- The geometric figure that remains after a parallelogram has been removed from a similar but larger parallelogram with which it shares a corner.
[Latin gnōmōn, from Greek, interpreter, pointer of a sundial, from gignōskein, to know.]
gnomonic gno·mon'ic or gno·mon'i·cal adj.
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