(n.) The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis.
(n.) A style or column erected perpendicularly to the horizon, formerly used in astronomocal observations. Its principal use was to find the altitude of the sun by measuring the length of its shadow.
(n.) The space included between the boundary lines of two similar parallelograms, the one within the other, with an angle in common; as, the gnomon bcdefg of the parallelograms ac and af. The parallelogram bf is the complement of the parallelogram df.
(n.) The index of the hour circle of a globe.
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Sundial
Definition:
(n.) An instrument to show the time of day by means of the shadow of a gnomon, or style, on a plate.
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(1) That means the family-run business, Sundial Group, pays at least £8.25 an hour to employees at the hotel – already well above the new national living wage of £7.20 that comes into force on Friday.
(2) In the kitchen and herb gardens you can buy salad and vegetables for your tea before wandering on to the fern garden with its geodesic dome (one of the largest collections in Scotland), the shady rhododendron dell, tranquil Japanese garden and, in front of the elegant whitewashed house, a giant sundial, over 10 metres in diameter.
(3) Sundial now runs three hotels in Northamptonshire, Warwickshire and Surrey that host conferences and training events for businesses as well as weddings.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tim Chudley, managing director of Sundial Group, who opted to pay staff at his Surrey hotel the living wage in 2015.
(5) In the summer, Davies says, the flock ditches the scrubby shelter of the odd cluster of eucalypts to follow the turbine’s shade, stretching out along the shadow cast by the 80m pole like a woolly sundial.
(6) A great example is the "sunstone" Lothbrok uses for ship navigation in the show, a piece of seemingly magical rock that will light up with the sun's rays even on a cloudy day (the "sunstone" allows for the use of his sundial-compass even on long voyages, allowing him to eventually plunder England).
(7) In a recent cloak-and-dagger operation together with some like-minded Aleppines he managed to brick up its 14th-century sundial for safe-keeping,” he says.
(8) Grass tracks, barefoot runners, giant, felt-roofed yurt arenas, sundials and hour-glass timers, mead, morris dancers… Surely a win-win solution?