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Vernier vs Dernier - What's the difference?

vernier | dernier |

As a noun vernier

is a secondary scale with finer graduations than the primary scale of a measuring device; the vernier measures between graduations of the larger scale.

As an adjective dernier is

last.

vernier

English

Noun

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

    • See also

    * calipers * nonius

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    * English eponyms

    dernier

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • last
  • * {{quote-book
    • , editor = , quotee = , title = , volume = 6: , year = 1906 , page = 90 , passage = ...the meek-tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. }} ----