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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.

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	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.) 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.