meaning of calipers
1. An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc. ; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc. ; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses.
2. an instrument for measuring the distance between two points
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