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UK
/vˈɜːnɪɐ/
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[ US /ˈvɝniɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈvɝniɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a small movable scale that slides along a main scale; the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale
How To Use vernier In A Sentence
- Models range from match-grade vernier tang and windgauge front sights, to open, sporting tang, and globe front sights for hunting.
- I chose instead to employ the vernier tang sight, and for me, this is the jewel of the No.2's sighting system.
- The presence of the ladder sight complicates the use of the vernier, especially at close ranges.
- To measure the axial deformation, Bishop and Henkel used a vernier telescope, which was focused on top of the steel ball.
- Livers were removed and the depth of necrosis was measured using Vernier calipers.
- In his "Geometria Practica" (1604) Clavius states among other things a method of dividing a measuring scale into subdivisions of any desired smallness, which is far more complete than that given by Nonius and must be considered as the precursor of the measuring instrument named after Vernier, to which perhaps the name Clavius ought accordingly to be given. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
- Its proper term is a nonius, because Nonius was its inventor and Vernier took the idea from him. The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
- The name vernier, now commonly applied to a small movable scale attached to a sextant, barometer, or other graduated instrument, was given by Lalande who showed that the previous name nonius, after Peter Nunez, belonged more properly to a different contrivance. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
- For example: ten spaces on the vernier being made equal to nine on the scale, each vernier space is one tenth less than a scale space; and if the first line or division of the vernier agree exactly with any line of the scale, the next line of the vernier must be one tenth of a tenth (or one hundredth) of an inch from agreement with the next _scale_ division; the following vernier line must be two hundredths out, and so on: therefore, the number of such differences (from the next tenth on the scale) at which a vernier line agrees with a scale line, when set, is the number of hundredths to be added to the said tenth; (in a common barometer, reading only to hundredths of an inch). Barometer and Weather Guide
- We are focusing right now on a thermostat, a single thermostat in the left, rear section of the Space Shuttle Discovery, which controls an important so-called vernier jet. CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2006