Verniers

One way to see this is to think about using verniers which will allow you to get one or two additional digits of correct readings, assuming the main lines and verniers are sufficiently accurate. ❋ Unknown (2007)

COLLINS: Well, personally, for me, I trained to fly with the loss of verniers, so I would be prepared to go. ❋ Unknown (2006)

COLLINS: The maneuver can be flown without verniers. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A short-statured Batinite crouched behind the tripod, his tentacles adjusting verniers on an instrument of some sort. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He placed the moon and two planets in relation to them, set the precise Greenwich time and geographical locations on appropriate dim-glowing dials, and worked a pair of verniers tifi he had numbers corresponding to that Passover week of Anno Domini 33. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1972)

He placed the moon and two planets in relation to them, set the precise Greenwich time and geographical lo­cations on appropriate dim-glowing dials, and worked a pair of verniers till he had numbers corresponding to that Passover week of Anno Domini 33. ❋ Anderson, Poul (1970)

The whistle of the jets faded, as the main thrust died and only the verniers continued to nudge Discovery gently into orbit. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1968)

The faithful verniers gave their last spurts of thrust, then closed down forever. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1968)

His broad, stubby-fingered hands were moving swiftly, twisting verniers, touching buttons, clicking keys. ❋ Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack (1963)

He began punching buttons for data and fiddling with set screws and verniers. ❋ Piper, H. Beam (1963)

He jerked his hands off the verniers, and then smiled sheepishly. ❋ Randall Garrett (1957)

Multhaus just sat there, surrounded by a wall of concentration, his hands still on the verniers, his eyes still on the screen. ❋ Randall Garrett (1957)

Metric gauges can now be procured from the material shops; they consist of tenth measures, verniers and micrometers; the finer ones of these come from Glashutte, and are the ones mentioned by Grossmann in his essay on the lever escapement. ❋ H. R. Playtner (N/A)

He began punching buttons for data and fiddling with setscrews and verniers. ❋ H. Beam Piper (1934)

He adjusted the verniers very carefully, and again threw on the power. ❋ Hans Waldemar Wessolowski (1927)

Nope, I was too anxious -- hurried too much on the settings of the slow verniers. ❋ Hans Waldemar Wessolowski (1927)

He was a first-class marksman, although it had required long and patient training to get him to understand the use of sights and verniers and to eradicate the belief, everywhere prevalent amongst savage races, that to raise the backsight to its highest elevation results in harder hitting by the bullet. ❋ Ernest [Illustrator] Prater (1917)

One of these in my own case was a little electric flash-light taken for the purpose of reading the verniers of a theodolite or sextant in star observations. ❋ Unknown (1914)

The mercurial barometer reading by verniers to three places of decimals was set up and read, and the two aneroids were adjusted to read with it. ❋ Hudson Stuck (1891)

One of these in my own case was a little electric flash - light taken for the purpose of reading the verniers of a theodolite or sextant in star observations. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)