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gnomon

/noh-mon/US // ˈnoʊ mɒn //UK // (ˈnəʊmɒn) //

指南针,节点,节气门,节流阀

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the raised part of a sundial that casts the shadow; a style.
    • : an early astronomical instrument consisting of a vertical shaft, column, or the like, for determining the altitude of the sun or the latitude of a position by measuring the length of its shadow cast at noon.
    • : Geometry. the part of a parallelogram that remains after a similar parallelogram has been taken away from one of its corners.

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Examples

  • But I landed in the dark chamber of a Gnomon, waist-deep in loose wheat.

  • I mounted the only unsealed Gnomon and shouted down into its cavernous depths.

  • A gnomon or pin erected so as to throw its traveling shadow across a graduated arc constitutes a dial.

  • A figure in the shape of a gnomon put round two sides of a square makes it into a larger square.

  • And the given absolute magnitude to which it is equal is the rectangle beneath the unequal segments, without gnomon.