Meaning

1 senses

  1. To use calipers to measure the size of.

    measure the diameter of something with calipers

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Ziri has a digital caliper.

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  2. It would be nice if you could use the caliper instead of your ruler: it's much more accurate!

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  3. A caliper is an instrument for measuring thickness and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale or a ruler.

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Origin

Variant of caliber.

Variant of caliber.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

calipers, calipering, calipered, calipered
Base formcaliper · to caliper
3rd person singularcalipers
Present participlecalipering
Past simplecalipered
Past participlecalipered

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycaliper
he, she, itcalipers

Past simpleLesson

all personscalipered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave calipered
he, she, ithas calipered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill caliper

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • measure the diameter of something with calipers:calliper

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
calfB1calibratecalicocaliphatecallA2calla

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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