Crossword clues for caliper
caliper
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, short for calliper compass (1580s), a device used to measure caliber (q.v.). Related: Calipers.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context usually plural only English) Uncommon variant of calipers. 2 (context automotive English) The part of a disc brake that holds the brake pads. n. 1 (context usually plural only English) Uncommon variant of calipers. 2 (context automotive English) The part of a disc brake that holds the brake pads.
WordNet
v. measure the diameter of something with calipers [syn: calliper]
Wikipedia
Caliper may refer to:
- Calipers (measuring tool),
- Caliper Corporation, a software firm,
- Caliper, the part of a disc brake assembly that squeezes the rotor,
- Caliper, the part of a bicycle rim brake assembly that squeezes the rim,
- Caliper, a measure of the thickness of paper,
- Brace (orthopaedic), specifically a leg brace,
- Rotating calipers, an algorithm for solving computational geometry problems.
Usage examples of "caliper".
What do you think Faulkner is saying about women with these two metaphors, one of a lever and the other of a caliper (an instrument that measures diameters)?
How could her two legs, spreading and closing like a caliper, take the measure of life?
Next he examined the neck and head, measuring the purpled ligature marks with a caliper, writing the specs down.
He wrote the information down, grabbed his caliper and braced himself for the torso wounds.
Beside him, Norma studied the design of a broad purple leaf, using a light-beam caliper to measure its various dimensions and the relationships among angles in the sap-filled veins.
There was no such good fortune in this case, but by measurements made by the vernier micrometer caliper I have found the precise thickness of several samples of paper as compared to that of the suicide note.