Crossword clues for vernier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vernier \Ver"ni*er\, n. [So named after the inventor, Pierre Vernier.] 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.
Vernier calipers, Vernier gauge, a gauge with a graduated bar and a sliding jaw bearing a vernier, used for accurate measurements.
Vernier compass, a surveyor's compass with a vernier for the accurate adjustment of the zero point in accordance with magnetic variation.
Vernier transit, a surveyor's transit instrument with a vernier compass.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
device for making precise measurements, 1766, from name of inventor, French mathematician Pierre Vernier (1580-1637), who described it in 1631.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A secondary scale with finer graduations than the primary scale of a measure device; the vernier measures between graduations of the larger scale. 2 A secondary control input with finer control than the primary, or coarse, input; for example the vernier frequency tuning knob on a radio. 3 (context physics English) A secondary system of force application for the attitude control of a spacecraft; for example a Wikipedia:Vernier thruster.
WordNet
n. a small movable scale that slides along a main scale; the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale [syn: vernier scale]
French mathematician who described the vernier scale (1580-1637) [syn: Paul Vernier]
Wikipedia
Vernier may refer to:
- Vernier, Switzerland
- Vernier (surname)
- Pierre Vernier, French mathematician and inventor of the Vernier scale
- Vernier scale, a secondary measuring device
- Vernier thruster, a secondary control mechanism on spacecraft
- Vernier throttle, a secondary control mechanism on aircraft
- Vernier Software & Technology, an educational technology supplier
- Vernier acuity, a type of visual acuity
Vernier is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Cédric Vernier (born 1975), French footballer
- Émile Louis Vernier (29 November 1829 – 24 May 1887), French painter
- Marie Vernier (fl. 1590–1627), French actress and theatre director
- Pierre Vernier (1580–1637), French mathematician and engineer
- Pierre Vernier (actor) (born 1931), French actor
Usage examples of "vernier".
Kinnison began deftly to manipulate the micrometric vernier of his dials.
But the Gundam had far more power in its vernier jets and could outperform the GM in almost every other aspect.
A key punched by Kovak gave the same answer as one punched by Kelly, and Max wanted Kelly on the vernier stereograph where his long experience could make the best of poor data.
The latter contains Nobel and Schoene elutriators, together with viscosimeters of the flow and the Coulomb and Clark electrical types, sieves, voluminometers, colorimeters, vernier shrinkage gauges, micrometers, microscopes, and the necessary balances.
Vernier took it when he retired, and several decrees, demanded by the populace, were then passed, These decrees were the liberation and recall of the deputies lately transported and arrested, the restoration of arms to the fauxbourgs, the arrest of emigrants and Parisian journalists, the re-establishment of the communes and sections, and the suspension of the existing committees of government, which were to be superseded by a sovereign commission.
He began punching buttons for data and fiddling with setscrews and verniers.
He was draped over the rack in front of the control board, his tentacles resting on the various toggles and verniers, and a rising hum indicated that the tubes were warming.
The shuttle blinked out of Beamspace, fired vernier jets to make the course correction, blinked back into Beamspace.
We drifted after her when, scowling, she took the fan to her workroom, and watched silently while she touched the fan with calipers and probes, plugged it in a test socket, pressed buttons, turned verniers, read results off the scales.
Only you can handle the verniers well enough to spin this old crate around.
With verniers deployed on a winglike design, they resembled fat spears.
The powerful verniers in his Rik Dom helped him twist and turn in space, and for a moment it looked as though the three machinesthe Gundam, the Elmeth, and his own Rik Domwould smash into each other.
On it was an ugly, incongruous black box, defiling with its mass-produced dials and verniers the loving handwork of the wood below and behind it.
The coxswains used the crafts' vernier jets to maneuver to a safe distance from the station and pointed their noses at a slight tangent to the planet below.
I got out my adjustable spanner and gingerly tweaked the fiddly little enhancement vernier.