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n. - An instrument for measuring the distance between two points.

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  • Hundreds and hundreds of children, many in callipers or wheelchairs, happy children finding a chance they would never have had.
  • 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...
  • The price of a pair of callipers need not exceed 1s.
  • · Vernier callipers, plug limit gauges, try squares
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