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- noun plural See Calipers.
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- noun UK Alternative spelling of
calipers .
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Examples
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Hundreds and hundreds of children, many in callipers or wheelchairs, happy children finding a chance they would never have had.
In the Front Line 1988
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His head had been steadied straight up in a most unnatural position, with a kind of callipers or steel braces, and he must have been told to "look up and smile" for a full minute.
Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912
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The huge 370mm discs, surrounded by four piston callipers explain why the steering is so precise, you'll think it's laser guided.
Car review: Audi RS3 2011
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She could move the furniture just a few inches, he probably wouldn't even notice, to provide unobtrusive supports so that she needn't take too quickly to sticks and callipers.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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Rows of chisels and callipers are slotted into a rack on the wall behind a second workbench cluttered with wood shavings, tins of Brasso, oil cans and a blade-sharpening grinder.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Rows of chisels and callipers are slotted into a rack on the wall behind a second workbench cluttered with wood shavings, tins of Brasso, oil cans and a blade-sharpening grinder.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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If you happen to possess micrometer callipers you can also measure the weathering rate on selected graves — but even if all you have is a simple GPS device, providing accurate data on its location and whether it has white marble headstones is also useful.
Gravestone Project Needs Your Help | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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He plans to do it over the course of two weeks, walking one mile every twelve hours using callipers and crutches, finishing on 26th April with all the other runners.
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He plans to do it over the course of two weeks, walking one mile every twelve hours using callipers and crutches, finishing on 26th April with all the other runners.
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They may feel smug, but that's because they as a group are as useful as a racehorse with callipers and can't quite grasp the importance of actual fact, nor how their legislation is harmful.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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