Crossword-Solution: CALIPERS 8 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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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.

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CALIPERS anagram EARCLIPS, REPLICAS, SPIRACLE

We have 10 clues for the answer “CALIPERS”

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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.
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 2006
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.
The Letters Of Mark Twain, Volume 4, 1886-1900 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2016
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.
The War Terror Arthur B. Reeve 2004
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.
The Net Rex Beach 2004
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.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 2005

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 —
Sherry Thomas Beguiling the Beauty
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.
Jerry Pinto Em and The Big Hoom
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.

Used 7 times in crossword archives (1976–2024).