Crossword-Solution: CALIPERS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Calipers | n. pl. | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CALIPERS | anagram | EARCLIPS, REPLICAS, SPIRACLE |
We have 10 clues for the answer “CALIPERS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A measuring instrument with two hinged legs | 1 answer |
| Measuring instrument with two hinged legs | 1 answer |
| Tool with metal jaws | 1 answer |
| Two-legged measuring device | 1 answer |
| Two-legged measuring instruments | 1 answer |
| Two-legged tools | 1 answer |
| Thickness measurer | 2 answers |
| Measuring tools. | 3 answers |
| Measuring instruments | 4 answers |
| MEASURING instrument | 56 answers |
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Sentences with CALIPERS (5)
Rather surprised, I said Yes, when he produced a thing like calipers and got the dimensions back and front and every way, taking notes carefully.
You could not tell by your eye that the third space was thinner than the others, but the glass and the calipers showed the difference.
Then the paper with its paraffine and glycerine coating takes off the powder.” In the laboratory he buried himself in work, with microscope compasses, calipers, while I fumed impotently at the window.
Aliandro's face had once been long and pointed, but with the loss of teeth and the other mysterious shrinkages of time it had shortened until in repose the chin and the nose seemed to meet like the points of calipers.
This important and growing department will be represented in the ideal gymnasium of the future--First, by courses, if not by a chair, devoted to the apparatus of measurements of human proportions and symmetry, with a kinesological cabinet where young men are instructed in the elements of auscultation, the use of calipers, the sphygmograph, spirometer, plethysmograph, kinesometer to plot graphic curves, compute average errors, and tables of percentile grades and in statistical methods, etc.
Quotes with CALIPERS (2)
He wanted to make cast models of her. He wanted to take a set of precision calipers and measure every distance between her features. He wanted her blood and glandular fluids analyzed by the finest chemists in the world — there must be something detectibly different in her inner workings for him to respond so dramatically, as if he’d been given a drug for which science had yet to find a name. But more than anything, he wanted to —
If there was one thing I feared as I was growing up . . . No, that's stupid. I feared hundreds of things: the dark, the death of my father, the possibility that I might rejoice the death of my mother, sums involving vernier calipers, groups of schoolboys with nothing much to do, death by drowning. But of all these, I feared the most the possibility that I might go mad too.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1976–2024).