Usually means: Precision scale for measuring accurately.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word vernier:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. Vernier, vernier: Merriam-Webster
  2. Vernier, vernier: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vernier: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vernier: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Vernier, vernier: Vocabulary.com
  6. Vernier, vernier: Wordnik
  7. Vernier, vernier: Wiktionary
  8. vernier: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. vernier: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. vernier: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Vernier: Dictionary.com
  12. vernier: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Vernier (disambiguation), Vernier (surname), Vernier: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Vernier: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. vernier: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Vernier: Rhymezone
  17. Vernier: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. vernier: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. vernier: FreeDictionary.org
  20. vernier: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. vernier: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vernier: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. vernier: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vernier: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Vernier: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Vernier)

noun:  A secondary scale with finer graduations than the primary scale of a measuring device; the vernier measures between graduations of the larger scale.
noun:  A secondary control input with finer control than the primary, or coarse, input; for example the vernier frequency tuning knob on a radio.
noun:  (physics) A secondary system of force application for the attitude control of a spacecraft; for example a vernier thruster.
noun:  A surname.

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