Associations to the word «Gnomonic»

Wiktionary

GNOMONIC, adjective. (cartography) Showing all great circles as straight lines, and thus preserving the shortest distances between any two locations.
GNOMONIC PROJECTION, noun. (cartography) A mapping projection in which all great circle paths (on a sphere the shortest path between points) are shown as straight lines.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King