Sundial
['sʌndaɪəl] or ['sʌn'daɪəl]
Definition
(noun.) timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial.
Typist: Natalie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An instrument to show the time of day by means of the shadow of a gnomon, or style, on a plate.
Editor: Marilyn
Examples
- The Egyptians even developed an apparatus for telling the time by reference to the stars--a star-clock similar in its purpose to the sundial. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- All was quiet with him, save that a long inscription had appeared that morning upon the pedestal of the sundial. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- None did come for a week, and then yesterday morning I found this paper lying on the sundial in the garden. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Having done this, you must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Three days later a message was left scrawled upon paper, and placed under a pebble upon the sundial. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He made sundials, water clocks, and similar apparatus, a little last gleam of experimental science in the gathering ignorance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The lever and the pulley, lathe s, picks, saws, hammers, bronze operating-lances, sundials, water-clocks, the gnomon (a vertical pillar for determining the sun's altitude) were in use. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Inputed by Jules