vernier
IPA: vˈɝniɝ
noun
- A secondary scale with finer graduations than the primary scale of a measuring device; the vernier measures between graduations of the larger scale.
- A secondary control input with finer control than the primary, or coarse, input; for example the vernier frequency tuning knob on a radio.
- (physics) A secondary system of force application for the attitude control of a spacecraft; for example a vernier thruster.
- A surname.
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Examples of "vernier" in Sentences
- It helps if you have some vernier calipers and a permanent marker.
- I made some remark about the "vernier" of one of the circles on the telescope.
- Shiloh Sharps 45-70 with Montana Vintage Arms vernier tang sights and my Bingham Flintlock long rifle.
- They talked about it a lot because it was her profession, but it is the thin vernier above a much deeper reality.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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