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Definition of: NERVIER

nervier: Offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to say"; Showing or requiring courage and contempt of danger; "the nervy feats of mountaineers"; Being in a tense state

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vernier

vernier: (n.) A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument.