How To Use Vernier In A Sentence
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Models range from match-grade vernier tang and windgauge front sights, to open, sporting tang, and globe front sights for hunting.
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I chose instead to employ the vernier tang sight, and for me, this is the jewel of the No.2's sighting system.
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The presence of the ladder sight complicates the use of the vernier, especially at close ranges.
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To measure the axial deformation, Bishop and Henkel used a vernier telescope, which was focused on top of the steel ball.
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Livers were removed and the depth of necrosis was measured using Vernier calipers.
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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
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Its proper term is a nonius, because Nonius was its inventor and Vernier took the idea from him.
The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
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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
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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
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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
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SHILOH - Jim Vernier was apparently defeated for mayor of Shiloh in Tuesday's municipal election - but apparently re-elected to the post on Wednesday.
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Root diameters at these positions along the roots were then measured using a vernier microscope.
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The vernier callipers I guess would do a very fine measurement, down to a millimetre or perhaps less.
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With their passing went also the last sensation of weight, except for occasional ghostly pats and nudges as the low-powered vernier jets made infinitesimal adjustments to the orbit.
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Baldwin soule-type vernier and home made spirit level sights are recent additions.
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In this book Vernier gives a table of sines and a method for deriving the angles of a triangle if its sides are known.
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The computer also can achieve the vernier adjustment by controlling the electro - hydraulic digital valve.
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It will be seen that the scale proper is attached to the quartz wedge, which is moved by the milled head, and attached to the other quartz wedge is a small scale called a vernier which is fixed, and which serves for the exact determination of the movable scale with reference to it.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
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The other measuring equipment, apart from the 20-metre tape, we have vernier callipers, feeler strips and telescopic measures.
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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
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It helps if you have some vernier calipers and a permanent marker.
Ask Nick: Speed wobble, shoe covers and single-ringing it
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I made some remark about the "vernier" of one of the circles on the telescope.
The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
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Initially a documentarist, Bertuccelli got her teeth in directing by working as an assistant with such greats as Tavernier and Kieslowski.
Karin Badt: Women Directors are Rare (For Now): An Interview with Julie Bertuccelli at Cannes
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Shiloh Sharps 45-70 with Montana Vintage Arms vernier tang sights and my Bingham Flintlock long rifle.
Investing in Rifles
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As Tavernier himself points out in one of the extra feature interviews on the DVD, Clouzot is able to establish each character's background and class in a few moments of screen time.
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Hyalites, flight-type Mobile Suits, had been manufactured for speed and thus had more verniers than the standard Arcos suit.
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A glittering biocomputer smaller than your fist, studded with tiny vernier thrusters, suspended on a web of particle collectors stretching ten meters across, drifting through the void around a fading star.
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The vernier rear sight is of the ‘Soule’ pattern, meaning the elevation staff rides on a windage adjustable drum.
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They talked about it a lot because it was her profession, but it is the thin vernier above a much deeper reality.
Is Firefly Good Sci-Fi?
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Even in an epic length period drama like The Princess of Montpensierwith its sweeping battle scenes and violence, the love the young womanof the title experiences for Henri de Guise Gaspard Ulliel, the rakish heartthrob of her youth is what matters most to director Bertrand Tavernier.
Regina Weinreich: My Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
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At pharyngeal recess level, parapharyngeal space and parapharyngeal structure were observed and measured in the width and area with vernier caliper and associate pane.
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We measured length and maximum breadth of eggs laid by all study pairs using vernier calipers.
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The thickness of the cover at the point of measurement was then obtained with Vernier calipers.
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While she was perhaps best known for her portrayal as Elisabeth, Empress Consort of Austria in various popcorn romance films throughout her career, it was later work with luminaries such as Luchino Visconti, Claude Chabrol and Bertrand Tavernier that established Schneider as a screen legend.
What's On Around Europe
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So how about building this from either a shuttle orbital maneuvering engine or if this is too powerful, a cluster of shuttle RCS thrusters, either the primary or vernier as required.
Shuttle Extension To 2015 Possible - But Not Cheap - NASA Watch
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He designed a simple device similar to that of the modern vernier for increase in the accuracy of measuring lengths.
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Vernier calipers, that measure to 0.2 cm, are available from precision engineering stores for $A500 and may be used.
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(Jane Birkin costarred with Dirk Bogarde in Daddy Nostalgia directed by Bertrand Tavernier.)
Miranda July at the End Of May + Tavernier, Jane Birkin & Merchant
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The apprentice class of 1995-1999 were presented with inscribed verniers and their certificates to mark their graduation.
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In contrast, oriented lines, contrast information, and vernier offsets show a slight decay for such time intervals.
