micrometer screw
Britishnoun
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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
In many cases the orifice is a rectangular slot in a brass plate and is adjusted by means of a brass slide operated by a micrometer screw.
From Chlorination of Water by Joseph Race
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
This is ascertained by means of a micrometer screw, S, which moves a needle, T, in front of the dial.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer
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 Ernst Leitz
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