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noun (in ancient Roman surveying)
an instrument having a cruciform wooden frame with a plumb line at the end of each arm, used for laying out lines at right angles to existing lines.
Origin:
< Latin grōma, grūma, by dissimilation < Greek gnôma, presumably with sense of gnṓmōn carpenter's square; see gnomon
< Latin grōma, grūma, by dissimilation < Greek gnôma, presumably with sense of gnṓmōn carpenter's square; see gnomon
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Groma
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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