- The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of
the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis. - 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. - 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. - The index of the hour circle of a globe.
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