gnomon

Etymology
Borrowed from, or directly from its , or directly from its etymon , from , ultimately from ; the word is thus related to.

The geometry sense (sense 4) is from the resemblance of the plane figure to a carpenter’s square. Similarly, a gnomon in mathematics (sense 5) is also shaped like a carpenter’s square when depicted pictorially if the figurate numbers are squares.

Noun

 * 1) An object such as a pillar or a rod that is used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it, especially the pointer on a sundial.
 * 2) An object such as a pillar used by an observer to calculate the meridian altitude of the sun (that is, the altitude of the sun when it reaches the observer's meridian), for the purpose of determining the observer's latitude.
 * 3) The index of the hour circle of a globe.
 * 4)  A plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram.
 * 5)  A number representing the increment between two figurate numbers.
 * 1) An object such as a pillar used by an observer to calculate the meridian altitude of the sun (that is, the altitude of the sun when it reaches the observer's meridian), for the purpose of determining the observer's latitude.
 * 2) The index of the hour circle of a globe.
 * 3)  A plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram.
 * 4)  A number representing the increment between two figurate numbers.
 * 1) The index of the hour circle of a globe.
 * 2)  A plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram.
 * 3)  A number representing the increment between two figurate numbers.
 * 1)  A number representing the increment between two figurate numbers.
 * 1)  A number representing the increment between two figurate numbers.

Translations

 * Arabic: قياس
 * Armenian: գնոմոն
 * Basque: gnomon
 * Belarusian: гно́ман
 * Bulgarian: гно́мон
 * Catalan: gnòmon,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 晷針
 * Czech: gnómon
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: gnoomon
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: gnomon, aste
 * Galician: gnomon
 * Georgian: გნომონი
 * German: Gnomon
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γνώμων, κερκίς
 * Hebrew: גנומון
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: gnómon
 * Icelandic: sólsproti
 * Ido:
 * Irish: snáthaid, snáthaid chlog gréine
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: グノモン
 * Korean: 규표(圭表)
 * Latvian: gnomons
 * Lithuanian: gnomonas
 * Malay: paku bayang
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: gnomon
 * Occitan:
 * Persian: اشاره‌گر,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: gnômon
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гно̀мо̄н
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: gnómon
 * Slovene: gnómon
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: gnomon
 * Turkish: gnomon
 * Ukrainian: ґно́мон


 * Friulian: gnomon
 * Romanian:


 * French:
 * Friulian: gnomon
 * Hungarian: gnómon
 * Slovene: gnomon
 * Urdu:

Noun

 * 1) gnomon

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) gnomon

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) gnomon; rod or pillar on a sundial whose shadow is used to indicate the time

Descendants

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Noun

 * 1) gnomon

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) gnomon