micrometer screw

British  

noun

1. a screw with a fine thread of definite pitch, such as that of a micrometer gauge

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And those who watched it know that Burnley played Fulham in a fixture that made a micrometer screw gauge manual look like Jilly Cooper’s Riders.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2021

Rotate the head of the micrometer screw until the movable line has transversed one division of the stage micrometer.

From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by Eyre, J. W. H. (John William Henry)

This in its simplest form consisted of a ring of wire nearly closed terminating in spark balls very close together, adjustable as to distance by a micrometer screw.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various

Coarse adjustment by rack and pinion, fine adjustment by micrometer screw with graduated head.

From Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus Catalogue No. 40 by Leitz, Ernst

Small Sliding Microtome, length of bed 21 cm, heavy knife-carrier, object clamp for specimen 25 mm diam., micrometer screw with disc graduated into 100 degrees, each division representing a motion of 0,005 mm.

From Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus Catalogue No. 40 by Leitz, Ernst