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Webster 1913 Edition
Nonius
No′ni-us
,Noun.
[Latinized form of
Nunez
, the name of a Portuguese mathematician.] A vernier.
Definition 2024
nonius
nonius
English
Noun
nonius (plural noniuses)
- A device for adjusting the accuracy of mathematical instruments, later superseded by the vernier
- 1997: Well, of course, one must manipulate the various ****-Settings precisely, read the Nonius, and an hundred other details besides I’d but bore you with — Thomas Pynchon Mason & Dixon
Derived terms
- nonius horopter
Translations
device for adjusting the accuracy of mathematical instruments