caliper

1. 1.

   measure the diameter of something with calipers

   Synonymscalliper

   Broadermeasure

Other forms of caliper

plural

calipers·

past tense

caliperred·

present participle

caliperring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about caliper

What does caliper mean?

caliper means "an instrument for measuring the distance between two points (often used in the plural)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in caliper?

caliper has 3 syllables: cal-i-per. The stress falls on "cal". In IPA it is /ˈkæləpɚ/.

What is another word for caliper?

Close synonyms include calliper, calliper. 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 caliper a common word?

caliper 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.