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What is a sundial?

What is a sundial? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A device measuring the time of day by the position of a shadow cast by a pole or plate (gnomon) upon an engraved series of marks.
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Early tools, such as the sundial, began to create objective standardization but still lacked precision.
The equation of time is the difference, over the course of a year, between time as read from a sundial and a clock.
The two parts of the painting are joined by the ampersand, which here begins to resemble a sundial or the hammer and sickle of the Soviet past.
Upon receiving the sundial, my friend was exceptionally pleased with the unique gift.
It doesn't matter what the item is, whether it's a sundial or a nest box, it has to arrive on time.
He is credited with the invention of a rain gauge, a water clock, and a sundial.

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