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brianson | 11:02 Wed 25th Oct 2006 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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what does gnomon mean
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The stationary arm that projects a shadow on a sundial
11:04 Wed 25th Oct 2006
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............. or fuller definition:

An object, such as the style of a sundial, that projects a shadow used as an indicator.
The geometric figure that remains after a parallelogram has been removed from a similar but larger parallelogram with which it shares a corner.
[Latin gnōmōn, from Greek, interpreter, pointer of a sundial, from gignōskein, to know.]

11:08 Wed 25th Oct 2006
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It means: "time to go out and buy a dictionary"
14:33 Wed 25th Oct 2006

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