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Vernier   /vˈərniər/   Listen
Vernier

noun
1.
French mathematician who described the vernier scale (1580-1637).  Synonym: Paul Vernier.
2.
A small movable scale that slides along a main scale; the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale.  Synonym: vernier scale.



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"Vernier" Quotes from Famous Books



... their hands on their bosoms and say, 'vitam expendere vero'. Some of them, as a Lagrange, Berthollet, Chaptal, Laplace, Francois de Neuf-Chateau, Tronchet, Monge, Lacepede, and Bougainville, are certainly men of talents; but others, as a Porcher, Resnier, Vimar, Auber, Perk, Sera, Vernier, Vien, Villetard, Tascher, Rigal, Baciocchi, Beviere, Beauharnais, De Luynea (a ci-devant duke, known under the name of Le Gros Cochon), nature never destined but to figure among those half-idiots and half-imbeciles ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton



Words linked to "Vernier" :   mathematician, vernier caliper, scale, vernier scale, vernier micrometer



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