vernier scale

1. 1.

   a small movable scale that slides along a main scale; the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale

   Synonymsvernier

   Broaderscale

Questions about vernier scale

What does vernier scale mean?

vernier scale means "a small movable scale that slides along a main scale; the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale".

What is another word for vernier scale?

Close synonyms include vernier. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vernier scale a common word?

vernier scale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.