A gnomon (/ˈnoʊˌmɒn, -mən/; from Ancient Greek γνώμων (gnṓmōn) 'one that knows or examines') is the part of a sundial that casts a shadow. The term is...

of the gnomon, though a single point or nodus may be used. The gnomon casts a broad shadow; the shadow of the style shows the time. The gnomon may be...

Look up gnomon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A gnomon is the part of a sundial that casts the shadow. Gnomon may also refer to: Gnomon (figure),...

Gnomon is a 2017 science fiction novel by British author Nick Harkaway. The book deals with a state that exerts ubiquitous surveillance on its population...

In geometry, a gnomon is a plane figure formed by removing a similar parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram; or, more generally, a figure...

a golden gnomon. By trisecting its apex angle, a golden gnomon can be subdivided into a golden triangle and a golden gnomon. A golden gnomon and a golden...

intended to have a yield of 10 gigatons of TNT, while its counterpart, Gnomon, was intended to have a yield of 1 gigaton. If built and detonated, Sundial...

Gnomon. Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft (Gnomon: Critical Journal of the Entire Field of Scholarship on Classical...

Gnomon Island is a small rocky island lying just north of Point Wild, on Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands. It was charted by Ernest Shackleton's...

related to Johann Albrecht Bengel. Gnomon Novi Testamenti Vol. 1. (English translation, covering Matthew and Mark.) Gnomon Novi Testamenti Vol. 2. (English...

The Gnomon of Saint-Sulpice is an astronomical measurement device located in the Church of Saint-Sulpice (Église Saint-Sulpice) in Paris, France. It is...

(which was nominated for the 2013 Arthur C. Clarke award), Tigerman, and Gnomon; and a non-fiction study of the digital world, The Blind Giant: Being Human...

The theorem of the gnomon states that certain parallelograms occurring in a gnomon have areas of equal size. In a parallelogram A B C D {\displaystyle...

translated as 'On the gnomon and the circular paths of Heaven', the 'Zhou shadow gauge manual', the 'Gnomon of the Zhou sundial', and 'Gnomon of the Zhou dynasty'...

Gnomon is a for-profit college in Hollywood, California. The school focuses on artistic and technical training for careers in the visual effects and games...

Atlantis. The beggar initiates Jimmerson into the Gnomon Society, and tells him of their current Master of Gnomons – Pletho Pappus. In 1919, Jimmerson travels...

on the site, began in 1646. During the 18th century, an elaborate gnomon, the Gnomon of Saint-Sulpice, was constructed in the church. Saint-Sulpice is...

Sunquest's gnomon automatically corrects for the equation of time allowing it to tell clock time. The Sunquest sundial utilizes a cast aluminum gnomon, the...

horizontal sundial that has a vertical gnomon and hour markers positioned in an elliptical pattern. The gnomon is not fixed and must change position daily...

Devendra Obi Banhart (born May 30, 1981) is a Venezuelan singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Texas and raised in Venezuela and California...

trapezoidal number. The gnomon is the piece added to a figurate number to transform it to the next larger one. For example, the gnomon of the square number...

instruments are (alphabetical): Chakra Yantra (four semicircular arcs on which a gnomon casts a shadow, thereby giving the declination of the Sun at four specified...

regular octagon. The first two creases divide the square into a silver gnomon with angles in the ratios 5 : 2 : 1, between two right triangles with angles...

name, as they wreak havoc across the city. Gnomon reveals that he is the one creating the metahumans. Gnomon claimed to have created the metahumans for...

quoted by his successors. Anaximander is credited with the invention of the gnomon, the simple, yet efficient Greek instrument that allowed the early measurement...

conceptual abstraction. His knowledge of geometry allowed him to introduce the gnomon in Greece. He created a map of the world that contributed greatly to the...

vertical sundial, the other a horizontal sundial. The shadow caster, or gnomon, was a string between them, and calibrated as to how far they should open...

1433. In 1475 he pierced a hole in the dome of Florence Cathedral making a gnomon at 91.05 metres (298.7 ft) above the pavement to create a meridian line...

first been erected under the pharaoh Psamtik II used in some fashion as a gnomon. Once believed to have been a massive sundial, it is now more commonly understood...

projections could have played a role in Neolithic structures. Perforated gnomons projecting a pinhole image of the sun were described in the Chinese Zhoubi...