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(n.) 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.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Vernier'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​v/vernier.html. 1828.
 
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