| A sundial consists of a gnomon standing vertically on a hemispherical base. |
| The analemmatic sundials are members of a dials family whose gnomon is mobile according to the date in the year. |
| I think I won the award for one word – gnomon – which is the hard part of a sundial. |
| He also probably introduced the gnomon into Greece and erected one in Sparta. |
| Our astronomer, using the pointer of a sundial, known as a gnomon, as his eye, would generate a second, shadow cone spreading downward. |
| The problem is that the gardeners have been caught on the gnomon of their own sundial. |
