display vs gnomon

display

noun
  • A piece of work to be presented visually. 

  • A show or spectacle. 

  • A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion. 

  • An electronic screen that shows graphics or text. 

  • The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception. 

verb
  • To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy. 

  • To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest. 

  • To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration. 

gnomon

noun
  • A plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • 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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