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tangent screw

A very fine, slow-motion screw giving a tangential movement for making the final setting to a precision surveying instrument (such as for completing the alignment of sight 3235 on a theodolite or transit by gentle rotation of the reading circle about its axis). Compare: Stebinger drum

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