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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:03:56 +0100, Harvey Van Sickle
<harvey.news@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:47:42 GMT, Rob Brons wrote
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>> Schuifmaat=micrometer (a kind of)
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>I think it turned out to be the sort-of-micrometer-that-one-calls-
>"calipers" ;)
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>> "Webber" <andrewlloyd@webber.com> schreef in bericht
>> news:3f705963$0$24166$ba620e4c@reader0.news.skynet.be...
>>> What do you call this in English?
>
>>> http://www.cap-maquettes.nl/media/b100-27.jpg
Even more specific:
"vernier caliper"
as in...
http://www.physics.smu.edu/~scalise/apparatus/caliper/
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