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Gnomon vs Nomen - What's the difference?

gnomon | nomen |

As nouns the difference between gnomon and nomen

is that gnomon is the pointer on a sundial while nomen is parts of speech which can be declined, ie substantive, adjective, numeral, article, pronoun.

gnomon

English

Noun

(wikipedia gnomon) (en noun)
  • The pointer on a sundial.
  • (geometry) A plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram.

    • Related terms

    * gnomonics

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    nomen

    Not English

    Nomen has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

    English words similar to 'nomen':

    noman, numen, nannan, ninon, ninein, nonman, nonmen