Definitions for Vernier

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Vernier ver·ni·er

Spelling: [vur-nee-er]

IPA: /ˈvɜr ni ər/

Vernier is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in Vernier (eeinrrv).

Definitions for Vernier

noun

1. Also, vernier scale. a small, movable, graduated scale running parallel to the fixed graduated scale of a sextant, theodolite, barometer, etc., and used for measuring a fractional part of one of the divisions of the fixed scale.
2. Machinery. an auxiliary device for giving a piece of apparatus a higher adjustment accuracy.
3. Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1580–1637, French mathematician and inventor.

adjective

1. equipped with a vernier:

Origin of Vernier

First recorded in 1760-70; named after P. Vernier

Examples for Vernier

The prism table can be clamped to any part of the vernier plate.

The vernier should be brought down to the bottom of the scale.

And my name is vernier—Doctor vernier; you may have heard of me.

What is the lowest reading of the vernier on the elevation-arc?

Major vernier, of Pulaski's legion, and twenty-five men, were killed.

I say, have you read that article of vernier's about yourself?

"We'll have to put a vernier control on this phase circuit," Ishie said to himself.

The circle is protected but only one vernier reading to 30 sec.

With rifled guns a vernier, reading the minutes, is generally added.

To obtain more delicate measurements a vernier must be employed.