Usually means: Precision measuring tool with graduations.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. vernier scale: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. vernier scale: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. vernier scale: Collins English Dictionary
  4. vernier scale: Vocabulary.com
  5. vernier scale: Dictionary.com
  6. Vernier scale: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. vernier scale: Rhymezone
  8. vernier scale: FreeDictionary.org
  9. vernier scale: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. vernier scale: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vernier scale: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. vernier scale, Vernier scale: Medical dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Vernier scale)

noun:  A vernier scale ), named after Pierre Vernier, is a visual aid to take an accurate measurement reading between two graduation markings on a linear scale by using mechanical interpolation, thereby increasing resolution and reducing measurement uncertainty by using vernier acuity to reduce human estimation error.


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