.38 caliber

1. 1.

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

   “a .38 caliber shell”

   Synonyms.38-caliber.38 calibre.38-calibre

Questions about .38 caliber

What does .38 caliber mean?

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

What is another word for .38 caliber?

Close synonyms include .38-caliber, .38 calibre, .38-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 .38 caliber a common word?

.38 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.