gnomon

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊˌmɒn/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊ.mən/
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• General-American: /ˈnoʊˌmɑn/
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• General-American: /ˈnoʊ.mən/
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• rhymes with -əʊmɒn
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• rhymes with -əʊmən
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• rhymes with -oʊmɑn
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Borrowed from French gnomon, or directly from its etymon Latin gnōmōn, or directly from its etymon Ancient Greek γνώμων (gnṓmōn, “discerner, interpreter; carpenter’s square; gnomon of a sundial; (geometry) gnomon”), from γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “to be aware of; to perceive; to know”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh3- (“to know”); the word is thus related to know. The geometry sense (sense 4) is from the resemblance of the plane figure to a carpenter’s square. Similarly, a gnomon in mathematics (sense 5) is also shaped like a carpenter’s square when depicted pictorially if the figurate numbers are squares.

69 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: قياس (qiyās) — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Armenian: գնոմոն (gnomon) — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Basque: gnomon — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Belarusian: гно́ман (hnóman) — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Bulgarian: гно́мон (gnómon) — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Catalan: gnòmon — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Catalan: estil — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Chinese Mandarin: 晷針 /晷针 (guǐzhēn) — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Czech: gnómon — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Dutch: gnomon — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Estonian: gnoomon — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Finnish: gnomon — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• French: gnomon — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• French: style — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Friulian: gnomon — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Friulian: aste — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Galician: gnomon — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Georgian: გნომონი (gnomoni) — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• German: Gnomon — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Greek: γνώμονας (gnómonas) — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Ancient Greek: γνώμων (gnṓmōn) — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Ancient Greek: κερκίς (kerkís) — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Hebrew: גנומון — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Hindi: शंकुक (śaṅkuk) — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Hungarian: gnómon — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Icelandic: sólsproti — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Ido: gnomono — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Irish: snáthaid — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Irish: snáthaid chlog gréine — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Italian: gnomone — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Italian: stilo — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Japanese: グノモン — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Korean: 규표 (gyupyo) — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Latvian: gnomons — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Lithuanian: gnomonas — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Malay: paku bayang — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Norwegian Bokmål: gnomon — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Occitan: gnomòn — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Persian: اشارهگر — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Persian: شاخص (šâxes) — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Polish: gnomon — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Portuguese: gnômon — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Russian: гно́мон (gnómon) — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Sanskrit: नृ (nṛ) — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Sanskrit: स्थाणु (sthāṇu) — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Serbo-Croatian: гно̀мо̄н — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Serbo-Croatian: gnòmōn — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Slovak: gnómon — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Slovene: gnómon — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Spanish: estilo — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Spanish: gnomon — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Spanish: nomon — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Spanish: estilete — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Swedish: gnomon — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Tamil: பா (pā) — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Turkish: gnomon — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Ukrainian: ґно́мон (gnómon) — object used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it
• Friulian: gnomon — object used to calculate the meridian altitude of the sun
• Polish: gnomon — object used to calculate the meridian altitude of the sun
• Romanian: gnomon — object used to calculate the meridian altitude of the sun
• Polish: gnomon — index of the hour circle of a globe
• Bulgarian: гно́мон (gnómon) — plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram
• French: gnomon — plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram
• Friulian: gnomon — plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram
• Hungarian: gnómon — plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram
• Polish: gnomon — plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram
• Slovene: gnomon — plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram
• Urdu: علم — plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram
• Polish: gnomon — number representing the increment between two figurate numbers