vernier

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It had two vernier engines that ran the whole time.

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French mathematician who described the vernier scale (1580-1637)

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noun

French mathematician who described the vernier scale (1580-1637)

noun

a small movable scale that slides along a main scale; the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale

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Core meanings and parts of speech for vernier.

noun

French mathematician who described the vernier scale (1580-1637)

noun

a small movable scale that slides along a main scale; the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale

Example sentences

It had two vernier engines that ran the whole time.

The controller pulses each vernier line in sequence and measures the sense node in turn.

High karma users sell their handle so trolls and sock puppets can have a vernier of credibility.

The higher the capacitance of a given vernier line, the more voltage will couple across to the sense node.

In the best cases, they've caught up to normal human visual acuity but usually not vernier acuity.

They frequently show up here on HN, they often involve GFi charging people money for GFi errors, and they nearly always center around the fact that the service has only the thinnest vernier of front-line support followed by forced cancellation.

Only talking about identifying things makes sense here, and that too, it is capable:"Because the disalignments are often much smaller than the diameter and spacing of retinal receptors, vernier acuity requires neural processing and "pooling" to detect it.

You're going to need a foundry with crucibles and casting flasks; a lathe, with gears or a whip to drive it, at least some centers and a dog if not a chuck; vises; hammers; drills; hardened steel cutting tools for the lathe, and abrasive tools to sharpen them with; files for detail work; at least some vernier calipers if not micrometers, and probably scales, surface plates, indicators, and a balance; and some way to measure the composition of your scrap metal, of which I have no idea.