caliper
noun
Usually calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
calipers
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pluralof caliper.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Using calipers, instruments designed to measure objects with great precision, the researchers compared the sizes of preserved crayfish.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Pulling alongside the Portland Head Light, a lighthouse dating to 1791, Martin yanked up a trap that held three shiny lobsters, and then demonstrated how to measure their shells with calipers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
In the Netflix film, Swan demonstrates with calipers on a life-size, anatomically correct male baby doll in a coffee shop to the nervous titters of the participants.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026
On a recent weekday, a dozen biologists armed with nets, calipers and notebooks gathered before daybreak at the Angeles National Forest site to take a full accounting of one of California’s great wildlife spectacles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
With the suspicious attention of a diamond merchant he examined the banana meticulously, dissecting it with a special scalpel, weighing the pieces on a pharmacist's scale, and calculating its breadth with a gunsmith's calipers.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
