gnomon

the part of a sundial that casts a shadow
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gnomon

Summary

gnomon ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (341 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • gnomon's image is recorded as Gnomon normalized.jpg[2].
  • gnomon's subclass of is recorded as artificial physical object[3].
  • gnomon's Commons category is recorded as Gnomons[4].
  • gnomon's said to be the same as is recorded as style[5].
  • gnomon's said to be the same as is recorded as Q1392408[6].
  • gnomon's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 60228[7].
  • gnomon's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0l50r[8].
  • gnomon's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300197553[9].
  • gnomon's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • gnomon's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • gnomon's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[12].
  • gnomon's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • gnomon's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/gnomon-timekeeping-device[14].
  • gnomon's Quora topic ID is recorded as Gnomons[15].
  • gnomon's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as gnomon[16].
  • gnomon's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 93977446[17].
  • gnomon's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 10293[18].
  • gnomon's Lex ID is recorded as gnomon[19].
  • gnomon's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 03447521-n[20].
  • gnomon's Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID is recorded as E0007294[21].
  • gnomon's Portable Antiquities Scheme object type ID is recorded as GNOMON[22].
  • gnomon's FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus ID is recorded as 95359[23].
  • gnomon's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as gnomon-103a55[24].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for gnomon include Gnomon[25], a high proper-motion star[26].

Why It Matters

gnomon ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (341 views/month).[1] gnomon has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] gnomon is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Entities named for gnomon include Gnomon[25], a high proper-motion star[26].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
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  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [25] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). gnomon. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/gnomon
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_gnomon_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{gnomon}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/gnomon}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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