gnomon

How To Use gnomon In A Sentence

• Unlike SCD, there is no pathognomonic radiological finding.
• From the use of the gnomon there naturally grew up the conception of angular measurements; and with the advance of geometrical conceptions there came the hemisphere of Berosus, the equinoctial armil, the solstitial armil, and the quadrant of Ptolemy -- all of them employing shadows as indices of the sun's position, but in combination with angular divisions. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
• It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Dubliners
• When one of them, the young Christopher Wren, went to Wadham in 1650, he was already interested in gnomonics.
• Few tests yield results that are pathognomonic for particular diseases.
• Inappropriateness of mood quality (laughing in a sad situation) is not a pathognomonic sign and may reflect normal anxiety (e.g., gallows humor), as well as serious illness. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
• After a few meetings, Shane joined Gnomon as our new, and current, resident artist.
• He is also said to have constructed a armillary sphere, a water clock, and a bronze gnomon, a pointer whose shadow gives the time of mid-day.
• In the modern era, however, neither astronomy, nor surveying, nor gunnery, nor gnomonics (the making of sundials), nor most of the other disciplines represented in this collection of instruments, could be called a branch of mathematics in any straightforward or unqualified way, even though they all make some use of mathematical techniques.
• None of these is pathognomonic (48, 49) (see specific disorders in Chapters 9 through 19 for details). The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry