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plural noniuses
A device for adjusting the accuracy of mathematical instruments, later superseded by the vernier. quotations examples
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, page 332