Gnomon (disambiguation)

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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 (journal), a German language academic journal of classics
  • Gnomon, one of the twenty-five fictional islands in the fantasy book series The Books of Abarat
  • Gnomon School of Visual Effects, a Hollywood-based university that offers artistic and technical training for careers in the visual effects and games industries.

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