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Definition of "calliper" []

  • Variant of caliper. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "calliper" in a sentence
  • "He lugs along his lame leg, strapped in a calliper, as if it were a giant log."
  • "With his left leg encased in a calliper splint, he still bustles about the stage with ferocious energy."
  • "With her eyepatch and her steel calliper, Tessa felt that her mother had been transformed from a glamorous extrovert into a “terrible burden” that the family had to endure with “silent suffering.”"