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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

gnomonic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /nəʊˈmɒnɪk/

Etymology

From Latin gnōmonicus, Ancient Greek γνωμονικός (gnōmonikós, “judging by rule”). Compare French gnomonique. See gnomon.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Showing all great circles as straight lines, and thus preserving the shortest distances between any two locations.

Deriveds

gnomonic projection

Translations (10)

hu gnomikus (showing all great circles as straight lines) · es nomónico (showing all great circles as straight lines) · es gnomónico (showing all great circles as straight lines) · ca gnomònic (showing all great circles as straight lines) · ga nómanach (showing all great circles as straight lines) · hu gömbközépponti (showing all great circles as straight lines) · fi gnomoninen (showing all great circles as straight lines) · hu gnomonikus (showing all great circles as straight lines) · pl gnomoniczny (showing all great circles as straight lines) · fr gnomonique (showing all great circles as straight lines)