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gno⋅mon⋅ic

  [noh-mon-ik]
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–adjective
1. of or pertaining to a gnomon or to a sundial.
2. of or pertaining to the measurement of time by a gnomon or a sundial.
3. gnomic 2 .
Also, gno⋅mon⋅i⋅cal.

Origin:
1595–1605; < L gnōmonicus of, belonging to a gnomon < Gk gnōmonikós. See gnomon, -ic
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gno·mon   (nō'mŏn', -mən)   
n.  

  1. An object, such as the style of a sundial, that projects a shadow used as an indicator.

  2. 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; see gnō- in Indo-European roots.]
gno·mon'ic, gno·mon'i·cal adj.
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