What's the difference between dernier and vernier?
Dernier
Definition:
(a.) Last; final.
Example Sentences:
(1) And Aisha Tyler in the video wearing a Kenzo-like sweatshirt, when everyone knows Kenzo sweatshirts are positively the dernier cri !
(2) Even in the world capital of fashion, the municipal bikes have quickly become dernier cri.
(3) By the mid to late 90s, they were the dernier cri among a certain type of young woman, one whom New York magazine summed up as "Us Weekly-toting, Juicy jeans-clad" (that description acts like a Proustian madeleine on me – ahhh, the early 21st century, I knew thee).
Vernier
Definition:
(n.) A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first method consisted of using a vernier caliper by which direct measurements (Dv) of the distances were recorded.
(2) The tests are resistant to the effects of opacities because they utilize a localization task (vernier acuity) rather than a resolution task.
(3) We report that the ability to detect a small vernier offset (less than 5 sec of arc in many individuals) between two small spots of light separated by a narrow gap can be disrupted by presenting additional targets in close proximity to the vernier stimulus.
(4) This result implies that the human visual system processes vernier offsets in parallel.
(5) Vernier acuity and vernier bias were examined in persons aged 20 to 79 years using a method of adjustments.
(6) Previous experiments that have compared monocular vernier acuity in amblyopic, monocularly blind, and normal binocular subjects have been confined to the center of the retina.
(7) Sensitivity to sinusoidal curvature (periodic vernier acuity) was measured by the method of adjustment as a function of spatial frequency of the curvature.2.
(8) Almost all increases in thresholds with eccentricity were explained by the theory in five of these tasks, which included the two-dot vernier hyperacuity test, the measurement of visual acuities with gratings, the Snellen E test, and two acuity tests that required either separation between dots or discrimination between two mirror-symmetric forms.
(9) The previously reported contrast dependence of vernier acuity was confirmed, but contrast had a much smaller effect upon interval acuity.
(10) In the past 10 years much has been learned about the development of two hyperacuities, namely, vernier acuity and stereoacuity.
(11) The developmental function for vernier acuity is discussed in relation to physiologic development of the kitten visual system and is related to published data on the development of stereoacuity and spatial resolution in the same species.
(12) Although stereoacuity and vernier acuity both yield comparable thresholds well below the eye's resolution limit, the neural circuits for these two classes of visual responses do not process the signals in an identical manner.
(13) Near birth, grating acuity is relatively more mature than vernier acuity.
(14) All vernier results, both for better and amblyopic eye, were within one line of Snellen acuity.
(15) Neither the variation in retinal eccentricity nor changing the paradigm to a vernier acuity task altered the basic pattern of results.
(16) Subjects showed little improvement in OC vernier acuity, even after 50,000 trials.
(17) In a crossover comparison with standard Vernier-type calipers, the Tumorimeter was significantly more accurate than bidimensional caliper determinations (less than or equal to 5% surface area error vs a 21-28% overestimate error for calipers).
(18) Vernier thresholds for all spatial frequencies are related to contrast by a power law with exponents of approximately -0.8.
(19) The values obtained by image analysis and by measurement with vernier calliper are identical and similar to the data of the literature.
(20) Differences between OC and SC vernier acuities persisted over a wide range of interstimulus spacings, widths, and contrasts.