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Noun Concept
Categories: Articles with short description, Ancient inventions, Garden ornaments, Egyptian inventions, Sundials
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sundial  Sun clocks  equatorial sundial  horizontal dial  horizontal sundial
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Timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial WordNet 3.0
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Timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A sundial is a horological device that tells the time of day when direct sunlight shines by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky. Wikipedia
A timekeeping device Wikipedia Disambiguation
Device that tells the time of day by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky Wikidata
A device used to tell the time with the help of the sun. OmegaWiki
A device measuring the time of day by the position of a shadow cast by a pole or plate (gnomon) upon an engraved series of marks. Wiktionary
Device noting the time of day by the position of a shadow. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
timepiece
small monument
astronomical instrument
HAS PART
CS
Polos
CA
Ortoestil
FR
style
sun path
gnomon
PART OF
Hôtel du Cadran
HAS KIND
astronomical rings
MarsDial
scaphe
Noon mark
moondial
+23 relations
HAS INSTANCE
Man Enters the Cosmos
Solarium Augusti
Kirkdale sundial
Tower of the Winds
Whitehurst & Son sundial
+41 relations
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Paulys Realenzyklopädie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft
Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
MEASURES
movement
STUDIED BY
gnomonics
USE
measurement of time
USES
sun
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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sundial
Wikipedia
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sundial
Wikidata
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sundial
Wiktionary
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sundial
OmegaWiki
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sundial
Wikipedia Redirections
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equatorial sundial, horizontal dial, horizontal sundial, Sciothericum, sea ring, Shadow-clock, shadow clock, solar clock, sun-dial, Sun clocks, Sun Clocks, sun dial, Sundail, sundial clock, sundials, Universal equinoctial ring dial, Wall sundials
Wikidata Alias
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sun dial

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