as in to calibrate
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Recent Examples of caliper
Standard Tornado Red calipers signal to the 99.999999 percent that this is indeed the V-8 trim.
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Tony Markovich, Car and Driver, 12 Jan. 2018
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Tony Markovich, Car and Driver, 12 Jan. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for caliper
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When the scares do hit, they’re perfectly calibrated.—
Emily Palmer Heller,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Flying multiple small telescopes in formation to mimic a giant mirror would require keeping their positions calibrated with precision down to the scale of a typical molecule.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
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Getty Images Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell stands 6-foot-5 and weighs 265 pounds.—
Rob Reischel,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Rather than conjuring a mood of bracing inexorability, this linear focus only suffocates what might be an interesting debate, as a man of the modern world weighs his values against those of a woman raised in atavistic isolation.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
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After the mysterious deaths of the two diamondback rattlesnakes, Cardwell dug up temperature data from a 20-year-old study in the Mojave Desert to help develop a mathematical model for measuring what might be happening inside the desert burrows.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Trades finalize in three to five seconds, enabling near-instant payment finality, and transaction fees are measured in fractions of a cent.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The researchers plan to scale up production and refine the technology for clinical trials.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Sep. 2025
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Musk transformed Tesla from a niche EV startup into the world's most valuable automaker, scaling production, expanding globally and pushing the industry toward electric mobility, while running several other companies including SpaceX and xAI.—
Akash Sriram,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Caliper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caliper. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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