Vernier is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VERNIER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an auxiliary scale that gives fractional readings
• a small movable graduated scale for obtaining fractional parts of subdivisions on a fixed main scale of a barometer, sextant, or other measuring instrument.
• movable scale on a measuring instrument for taking readings in fractions
• 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.
• French mathematician who described the vernier scale (1580-1637)
• a small movable scale that slides along a main scale; the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an auxiliary scale used with a main scale to obtain fine measurements

Words related to VERNIER

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Words that contain VERNIER

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How to use VERNIER in a sentence

• By means of a vernier or eye-piece, the diameter of the Sun could be read off the discometer, and from his diameter my distance could be accurately calculated.
• Vernier, the organ of the committee of finances, proposes to substitute money made of some metal in the place of 18 milliards of assignats in circulation.
• In Paris he heard De Vernier using the words Trenton and Niagara, as if they were household words.
• A slide is made to play upon it with a vernier scale, graduated to hundredths of an inch.
• It is provided with a vernier scale graduated to hundredths of an inch.
• A vernier is attached to the sliding branch, graduated to hundredths of an inch.
• Nonius, a Portuguese, had invented something on a similar principle and yet essentially different from the modern vernier, invented by a Frenchman of that name.
• Brevoort in America, of Harry Thompson and Emile Vernier in Paris.

Similar words containing VERNI without suffix er

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