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vernier

Length / number of characters: 7
Number of words: 1

  • French mathematician who described the vernier scale (1580-1637)
  • a small movable scale that slides along a main scale
  • A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument
  • Residential area (city, town, village) in Switzerland in Geneve

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