vernier

• In the dimness, he could barely make out the still form on the bed, grotesque with the electrode-vernier apparatus already in place at its temples. —  The Dark Door
• With sun-blinded eyes, he snapped shut the vernier (a graduated scale that subdivides the smallest divisions on the sector of the circular scale of the sextant) and with the resolute squaring of his jaws, I was sure that he was satisfied, and I was confident that the journey had ended. —  A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
• I remarked upon the fact, but he seemed to take it as a matter of course that the cloud would get out of the way when he wanted to look I made some remark about the "vernier" of one of the circles on the telescope Why do you call it a vernier?" —  The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
• A vernier is attached to the sliding branch, graduated to hundredths of an inch. —  Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
• 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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