Dictionary Entry
gnomon
gnomon is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 13 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis.
- 2noun
A style or column erected perpendicularly to the horizon, formerly used in astronomocal observations. Its principal use was to find the altitude of the sun by measuring the length of its shadow.
- 3noun
The space included between the boundary lines of two similar parallelograms, the one within the other, with an angle in common; as, the gnomon bcdefg of the parallelograms ac and af. The parallelogram bf is the complement of the parallelogram df.
- 4noun
The index of the hour circle of a globe.
- 5noun
indicator provided by the stationary arm whose shadow indicates the time on the sundial
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