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noun
- a device for adjusting the accuracy of mathematical instruments, later superseded by the vernier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
Etymology: Latinised form of the name of w:Pedro Nunes, Pedro Nuíes (1502-78), a Portuguese mathematician and geographer.
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