The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nonius \No"ni*us\, n. [Latinized form of Nunez, the name of a Portuguese mathematician.] A vernier.
Wiktionary
n. A device for adjusting the accuracy of mathematical instruments, later superseded by the vernier
Wikipedia
Nonius is a lunar impact crater. It is located in the rugged southern highlands on the Moon's near side. The northwestern side and about half the interior floor are overlain by the rim and outer rampart of the walled plain Walther. About half its diameter to the southeast is the smaller crater Kaiser, and slightly farther to the south lies Fernelius.
The surviving rim of this crater has been damaged by multiple impacts, including the merged pair of Nonius K and Nonius L across the northern rim. The surviving outline is more hexagonal in shape than round. The interior floor has an uneven surface, with low ridges and a crater-formed gouge in the western half.
Nonius can refer to:
Nonius is a device, named in honour to its Portuguese author and inventor Pedro Nunes (Latin: Petrus Nonius), created in 1542 as a system for taking fine measurements on the astrolabe. Later on, it was adapted in 1631 by the French mathematician Pierre Vernier, to create the vernier scale.
Usage examples of "nonius".
Lucius Nonius, who had been a praetor two years before, and would not offend his uncle if elected a consul.
Metella took one look at their faces as the band streamed into the atrium and decided to absent herself, which left Pompey to hand his client Nonius to the steward with a request that he be well treated.
A fact that delighted Nonius, who had loved the quiet, sick little boy and his anxious mother.
Cornelia Metella took one look at their faces as the band streamed into the atrium and decided to absent herself, which left Pompey to hand his client Nonius to the steward with a request that he be well treated.
Picenum named Lucius Nonius, and gone north with him to enjoy whatever luxuries life in Picenum might hold.
It was very shortly afterward that she married her Nonius and went with him to Picenum.
Every rich man on the conservative front benches had dug deep into his cashbox, and votes were bought for men like Quintus Nonius from Picenum, a political nobody of stoutly conservative heart.
Quintus Nonius from Picenum wanted to go home to his expensive new house on the Carinae.
Glaucia, getting to his feet after verifying that Quintus Nonius was indeed dead.
Lucius Appuleius and I were involved in the death of Quintus Nonius have no foundation in fact.
To appoint Lucius Appuleius the successor of Quintus Nonius as quickly and smoothly as possible was as logical as it was expedient.
Tribune of the plebs for the second time, Lucius Appuleius Saturninus dominated the college completely, and exploited the fear the death of Quintus Nonius had provoked to further his own legislative ends.
Though he kept denying strenuously any implication in the murder, he kept dropping little remarks in private to his fellow tribunes of the plebs which gave them cause to wonder if they might not end up as Quintus Nonius did, should they attempt to thwart him.
Convinced that Nonius would, Octavian backtracked to the junction of the Via Minucia and the Via Appia at Beneventum, picked up the Via Appia there and resumed his journey to Neapolis, where he arrived toward the end of April to find Philippus and his mother in a fever of worry.
The bier was put upon the rostra, and the mourning relativesall save Lucius Nonius and Aelia attached in some way to the Julian houseascended it to stand and hear the eulogy.