micrometer screw
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
The stand is inclinable and fitted with revolving centering stage, coarse adjustment by rack and pinion, fine adjustment by micrometer screw with scale.
From Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus Catalogue No. 40 by Leitz, Ernst
The specimen carrier is moved vertically by means of a micrometer screw to which a large disc is attached.
From Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus Catalogue No. 40 by Leitz, Ernst
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 Race, Joseph
The objectclamp is raised vertically by a micrometer screw.
From Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus Catalogue No. 40 by Leitz, Ernst
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
