nonius

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Nonius, the Latinised form of the name of its inventor, Pedro Nunes (1502-78), a Portuguese mathematician and geographer.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈnəʊnɪəs/

Noun

nonius (plural noniuses)

A device for adjusting the accuracy of mathematical instruments, later superseded by the vernier.
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 332:
  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,—

Derived terms

nonius horopter

Translations

device for adjusting the accuracy of mathematical instruments

Bulgarian: нониус m (nonius)
Catalan: nònius (ca) m
Finnish: noonio (fi)
Galician: nonio m
German: Nonius (de) m
Italian: nonio (it) m
Portuguese: nônio m (Brazil), nónio m (Portugal)
Spanish: nonius m, nonio (es) m

Anagrams

UNISON, Unions, unions, unison

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