gnomon 的定义
- 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.
gnomon 近义词
等同于 timepiece
更多gnomon例句
- 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.