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Calipers are a measuring device to measure length accurately. It is basically a ruler where you can put the thing you are measuring on the ruler and slide a contact to touch the end and read the ruler.

A vernier, which works on calipers or many other measuring devices, is a way to divide up the readings into even smaller increments so you can measure even more accurately. For example, instead of finding the object is 43mm long, you can read it is 43.3mm long.

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The "Vernier" part is a subsidiary scale engraved to one increment longer than the equivalent value on the main scale for the same number of steps, providing a magnifying effect that allows reading the length to 1/1000" or 0.01mm. Often now replaced by a digital equivalent, sometimes referred to as "verniers" colloquially but quite wrongly.

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