Vernier Definition

vûrnē-ər
noun
A short graduated scale that slides along a longer graduated instrument and is used to indicate fractional parts of divisions, as in a micrometer.
Webster's New World
Any device that makes possible a finer setting of a tool or measuring instrument.
Webster's New World

A secondary control input with finer control than the primary, or coarse, input; for example the vernier frequency tuning knob on a radio.

Wiktionary
(physics) A secondary system of force application for the attitude control of a spacecraft; for example a vernier thruster.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • Paul Vernier
  • vernier scale
adjective
Of or fitted with a vernier.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Vernier

Noun

Singular:
vernier
Plural:
verniers

Origin of Vernier

  • Borrowing from French vernier. From Pierre Vernier, the inventor.

    From Wiktionary

  • After Pierre Vernier (1580?–1637), French mathematician

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Vernier Sentence Examples

  • The latter are in fact little microscopes carrying a vernier etched on glass, in lieu of a filar micrometer.

  • A micrometer drum reads to 2', while the vernier reads to single minutes so that very fine adjustments can be made.

  • If we now attach to the polar axis a graduated circle D D, called the" hour circle,"of which the microscope or vernier R reads o h when the declination axis is horizontal, we can obviously read off the hour angle from the meridian of any star to which the telescope may be directed at the instant of observation.

  • A slight rotatory motion of the telescope E on its axis enables the vernier of the declination circle to be read through prism 1.

  • The polarizing prism is fixed at the centre of a circular disk, that has a scale on its circumference, which with a fixed vernier determines the positions of the polarizer, for which the bands disappear at the assigned point of the field.

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Words Starting With

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RERIER

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