Definition of Nonus
No"ni*us (?), n. [Latinized form of
Nunez, the name of a Portuguese mathematician.] A
vernier.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- a device for adjusting the accuracy of mathematical instruments, later superseded by the vernier
*1997: Well, of course, one must manipulate the various Screw-Settings precisely, read the Nonius, and an hundred other details besides I'd but bore you with — Thomas Pynchon Mason & Dixon
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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