1) American mountain 2) Architectural element 3) Day timer 4) Early timekeeper 5) Item with a gnomon 6) Mountain of Washington 7) Mountain in Washington 8) Mountain in North America 9) Mount of Washington 10) Mount of North America 11) Mountain of North America 12) Old timer 13) One-time timepiece 14) Outdoor clock
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1) Gnomon
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A sundial is a device that tells the time of day by the position of the Sun. In common designs such as the horizontal sundial, the sun casts a shadow from its style onto a surface marked with lines indicating the hours of the day. The style is the time-telling edge of the gnomon, often a thin rod or a sharp, straight edge. As the sun moves across ...
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• (n.) An instrument to show the time of day by means of the shadow of a gnomon, or style, on a plate.
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Device for telling the time by the sun. The dial has a central protruding arm known as a gnomon, and as the sun rises the shadow cast by the gnomon indicates the time on markings round the edge of the dial. A pocket sundial known as the Butterfield dial - invented by Michael Butterfield (fl. 1670-1724) and made of silver or brass with an octagonal ...
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the earliest type of timekeeping device, which indicates the time of day by the position of the shadow of some object exposed to the Sun`s rays. As ... [1 related articles]
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A device for showing apparent solar time by the position of a shadow cast by an indicator called a gnomon. The gnomon slants upwards away from the dial at an angle determined by the latitude; it points due north in northern latitudes and due south in southern latitudes. Sundials were first used in t...
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Means of telling time by a shadow meeting a point on a measured scale. Anglo-Saxon examples are at Escomb and Pittington, County Durham, on the church walls. Often found in Post-Medieval gardens will contain these. They tend to be inscribed with details of the person who set the sundial up. It does not necessarily be a measurement of hours - Anglo...
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Device for telling the time by the sun. The dial has a central protruding arm known as a gnomon, and as the sun rises the shadow cast by the gnomon indicates the time on markings round the edge of the dial. A pocket sundial known as the Butterfield dial - invented by Michael Butterfield (fl. 1670-1724) and made of silver or brass with an octagonal …...
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Sun'di`al noun An instrument to show the time of day by means of the shadow of a gnomon, or style, on a plate.
Sundial shell (Zoology) ,
any shell of the genus Solarium. See Solarium . Found on
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A sundial or dial is an instrument for showing the hour of the day from the shadow thrown while the sun is shining by a stile or gnomon upon a graduated surface. The sundial has been known from the earliest times amongst Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Hebrews. From those eastern nations it came to the Greeks. It was introduced into Rome during the first...
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n] - timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial
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A device for telling time of day by the shadow which sunlight produces on the instrument.GnomonThe part of a sundial which casts the shadow, usually a rod or fin pointed at the celestial pole.
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noun timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial
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Ancient instrument used to tell time.
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an instrument that indicates the time of day by means of the position, on a graduated plate or surface, of the shadow of the gnomon as it is cast by the sun.
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