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Gnomon

The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis.

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Indicator 76% connected

One who, or that which, shows or points out; as, a fare indicator in a street car.

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Sundial 70% connected

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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Annunciator noun · 86% connection

an indicator that announces which electrical circuit has been active (as on a telephone switchboard)

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Cursor noun · 86% connection

(computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point t…

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Dial noun · 86% connection

the circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments

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Level noun · 86% connection

indicator that establishes the horizontal when a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid

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Pointer noun · 86% connection

(computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point t…

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Scale noun · 86% connection

an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks

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Baseline noun · 78% connection

an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared; "they established a baseline for the budget"

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Bench mark noun · 78% connection

a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point

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Benchmark noun · 78% connection

a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point

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Character reference noun · 78% connection

a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability;…

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Data noun · 78% connection

a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn; "statistical data"

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database noun · 78% connection

an organized body of related information

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Dependability noun · 78% connection

the quality of being dependable or reliable

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Dependableness noun · 78% connection

the quality of being dependable or reliable

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Duplicability noun · 78% connection

the quality of being reproducible

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derived from experiment and observation rather than theory; "an empirical basis for an ethical theory"; "empirical laws"; "empirical d…

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your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compellin…

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Findings noun · 78% connection

a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes

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Aberration noun · 78% connection

A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and th…

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Adumbrate verb · 78% connection

To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.

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Axial adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.

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Axis noun · 78% connection

A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e.…

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Brachypinacoid noun · 78% connection

A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.

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Celestial longitude noun · 78% connection

(astronomy) the equatorial coordinate specifying the angle, measured eastward along the celestial equator, from the vernal equinox to…

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Clock noun · 78% connection

A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by…

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Eclipse noun · 78% connection

An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either b…

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Energy noun · 78% connection

an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style"

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Equatorial noun · 78% connection

An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel t…

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Gnomonics noun · 78% connection

The art or science of dialing, or of constructing dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon.

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Harmony noun · 78% connection

A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows…

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Horary adjective · 78% connection

Occurring once an hour; continuing an hour; hourly; ephemeral.

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