Gnomon (disambiguation)

Gnomon (disambiguation)

A gnomon is the part of a sundial that casts the shadow.

Gnomon may also refer to:

* Gnomon (figure), in geometry, a plane figure formed by removing a similar parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram
* Gnomon, the difference between a pair of consecutive figurate numbers
* Gnomon, one of the twenty-five fictional islands in the fantasy book "Abarat"
* Gnomon School of Visual Effects

See also

* Gnomonic projection


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