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noniuses

noniuses is the plural of nonius.

Meaning of nonius

Noun

nonius (plural noniuses)

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 (navigation) A device for adjusting the accuracy of mathematical instruments, later superseded by the vernier.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

Questions about noniuses

What is noniuses the plural of?
Noniuses is the plural of nonius.

Words near noniuses in the dictionary

  1. noniteratively
  2. nonitinerant
  3. nonitol
  4. nonius
  5. nonius horopter
  6. noniuses
  7. nonivamide
  8. nonjacketed
  9. nonjade
  10. nonjaded
  11. nonjail

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