.22 caliber

1. 1.

   of or relating to the bore of a gun (or its ammunition) that measures twenty-two hundredths of an inch in diameter

   “a .22 caliber pistol”

   Synonyms.22-caliber.22 calibre.22-calibre

Questions about .22 caliber

What does .22 caliber mean?

.22 caliber means "of or relating to the bore of a gun (or its ammunition) that measures twenty-two hundredths of an inch in diameter".

What is another word for .22 caliber?

Close synonyms include .22-caliber, .22 calibre, .22-calibre. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is .22 caliber a common word?

.22 caliber is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.