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Definition of Gnomonic
1. a. Of or pertaining to the gnomon, or the art of dialing.
Definition of Gnomonic
1. Adjective. (cartography) Showing all great circles as straight lines, and thus preserving the shortest distances between any two locations. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gnomonic
1. gnomon [adj] - See also: gnomon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gnomonic
Literary usage of Gnomonic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1922)
"This can be measured directly by means of the gnomonic tangent scale. ...
Determination of Axial Elements of Pyroxene from gnomonic Projection 214. ..."
2. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"gnomonic Projection. — In the gnomonic projection the area to be mapped is
projected on a plane tangent to the sphere, and the eye is supposed to be at the ..."
3. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, William Ebenezer Ford (1922)
"The straight lines upon it represent the projection of the Measurement of the
angle between parallel zones on the gnomonic Projection arcs of great circles ..."
4. Geodesy: Including Astronomical Observations, Gravity Measurements, and by George Leonard Hosmer (1919)
"The gnomonic Projection. In the gnomonic, or central, projection the ...
gnomonic Projection or Great-circle Chart. The meridians and the equator are of ..."
5. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"X. To describe the gnomonic projection of a spherical triangle, when three sides
are given; and to find the measures of either of its angles. Let ABC, fig. ..."
6. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"A contracted form of gnomonic. 2. In gram., used in maxims or general statements;
... In a gnomonic manner ; according to the principles of the gnomonic ..."
7. A Treatise on Crystallography by William Hallowes Miller (1839)
"When the figure of the sphere is either its stereographic or gnomonic projection,
many problems of crystallography may be very expeditiously solved by ..."
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