You can make 27 words from gnomon according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
Definitions and meaning of gnomon
gnomon
Etymology
Borrowed from Frenchgnomon, or directly from its etymon Latingnōmōn, or directly from its etymon Ancient Greekγνώμων(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.
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
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.
The index of the hour circle of a globe.
(geometry) A plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram.
(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”).
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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, →OCLC.
“gnomon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
“gnomon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
“gnomon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
gnomonm (pluralgnomons)
gnomon
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Further reading
“gnomon” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
Esperanto
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈɡnomon]
Rhymes: -omon
Hyphenation: gno‧mon
Noun
gnomon
accusative singular of gnomo
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latingnōmōn, from Ancient Greekγνώμων(gnṓmōn, “indicator”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ɡnɔ.mɔ̃/
Noun
gnomon
gnomon
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Further reading
“gnomon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greekγνώμων(gnṓmōn, “discerner, interpreter; gnomon of a sundial”), from γιγνώσκω(gignṓskō, “to be aware of; to perceive; to know”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European*ǵneh₃-(“to know”).