Gnomon (figure)
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For the part of a sundial and history, see Gnomon. For other uses, see Gnomon (disambiguation).
In geometry, a gnomon is a plane figure formed by removing a similar parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram; or, more generally, a figure that, added to a given figure, makes a larger figure of the same shape.[1]