different between gnomonics vs gnomon

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?n?ks

Noun

gnomonics (uncountable)

1. The art of designing and constructing sundials

Related terms

• gnomon

Anagrams

• oncomings

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French gnomon, or directly from its etymon Latin gn?m?n, or directly from its etymon Ancient Greek ?????? (gn?m?n, “discerner, interpreter; carpenter’s square; gnomon of a sundial; (geometry) gnomon”), from ???????? (gign?sk?, “to be aware of; to perceive; to know”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?neh?- (“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 4) is also shaped like a carpenter’s square when depicted pictorially if the figurate numbers are squares.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n??m?n/, /-m?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?no?m?n/, /-m?n/
• Hyphenation: gno?mon

Noun

gnomon (plural gnomons)

1. An object such as a pillar or a rod that is used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it, especially the pointer on a sundial. [from mid 16th c.]

   Synonyms: cock, style
2. An object such as a pillar used by an observer to calculate the meridian altitude of the sun (that is, the altitude of the sun when it reaches the observer's meridian), for the purpose of determining the observer's latitude.
3. The index of the hour circle of a globe.
4. (geometry) A plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram.
5. (mathematics, by extension) A number representing the increment between two figurate numbers (“numbers equal to the numbers of dots in geometric figures formed of dots”).

Related terms

• gnomonic
• gnomonics

Translations

References

Further reading

• gnomon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gnomon (figure) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gnomon (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gnomon in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• gnomon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• gnomon at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “gnomon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Esperanto

Noun

gnomon

1. accusative singular of gnomo

French

Etymology

From Latin gn?m?n, from Ancient Greek ?????? (gn?m?n, “indicator”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?.m??/

Noun

gnomon

1. gnomon

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (gn?m?n, “discerner, interpreter; gnomon of a sundial”), from ???????? (gign?sk?, “to be aware of; to perceive; to know”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?neh?- (“to know”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??no?.mo?n/, [??no?mo?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??o.mon/, [????m?n]

Noun

gn?m?n m (genitive gn?monis); third declension

1. gnomon; pillar or rod on a sundial whose shadow is used to indicate the time

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• gn?monic?
• gn?monicus

Descendants

• Catalan: gnòmon
• English: gnomon
• French: gnomon
• Italian: gnomone
• Portuguese: gnômon
• Romanian: gnomon
• Spanish: gnomon

References

• gnomon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gnomon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Polish

Noun

gnomon m inan

1. gnomon

Declension

Further reading

• gnomon in Polish dictionaries at PWN