Term: vernier scale: a small movable scale that slides along a main scale; the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale
Candidate hypernym: scale: an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks → 1
Candidate hypernym: red haw: American red-fruited hawthorn with stems and leaves densely covered with short woolly hairs → 0
Candidate hypernym: sugar bowl: a dish in which sugar is served → 0
Candidate hypernym: shepherd's purse: white-flowered annual European herb bearing triangular notched pods; nearly cosmopolitan as an introduced weed → 0
Candidate hypernym: scleral veins: tributaries of the anterior ciliary veins that drain the sclera of the eye → 0
Candidate hypernym: decantation: the act of gently pouring off a clear liquor (as from its original bottle) without disturbing the lees → 0
Candidate hypernym: formica: type genus of the Formicidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: slavery: the practice of owning slaves → 0
Candidate hypernym: yellow bass: North American freshwater bass resembling the larger marine striped bass → 0
Candidate hypernym: sciadopitys: type and sole genus of Sciadopityaceae; Japanese umbrella pines → 0
Candidate hypernym: leftism: the ideology of the political left; belief in or support of the tenets of the political left → 0