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noun

caliper

an instrument for measuring the distance between two points

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Six example sentences with caliper, each labelled with its topic.

  • Students used a caliper to record the shell width of every snail before returning it to the pond.

    Science

  • The trainer pinched a fold of skin with a caliper at three sites to estimate body composition.

    Fitness

  • A digital caliper reads to a hundredth of a millimetre, which is why machinists keep one in every drawer.

    Technology

  • The sculptor set a caliper against the model's jaw, then transferred the measurement to the marble block point by point.

    Art

  • A bronze caliper dug out of Pompeii shows that Roman craftsmen were measuring inner diameters two thousand years ago.

    History

  • The violin maker checks the spruce top with a caliper until it thins to exactly two and a half millimetres.

    Music

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