Sundial

(noun.) timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial.

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• The Egyptians even developed an apparatus for telling the time by reference to the stars--a star-clock similar in its purpose to the sundial. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• All was quiet with him, save that a long inscription had appeared that morning upon the pedestal of the sundial. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• None did come for a week, and then yesterday morning I found this paper lying on the sundial in the garden. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Having done this, you must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Three days later a message was left scrawled upon paper, and placed under a pebble upon the sundial. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He made sundials, water clocks, and similar apparatus, a little last gleam of experimental science in the gathering ignorance. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The lever and the pulley, lathe s, picks, saws, hammers, bronze operating-lances, sundials, water-clocks, the gnomon (a vertical pillar for determining the sun's altitude) were in use. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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