Sentence examples for In calibre, from inspiring English sources

The aorta is narrow in calibre.

As tanks acquired heavier armour during World War II, so the guns became larger, eventually reaching 128 millimetres in calibre.

Gatling weapons were made to take a variety of ammunition, up to a full inch in calibre.

World War I tanks were either "male" or "female"; that is, they were armed either with cannon up to 75 millimetres in calibre or else with machine guns.

Battleships were defined as warships armed primarily with guns over eight inches in calibre or displacing more than 10,000 tons.

A modern destroyer's armament consists of surface-to-air missiles, antisubmarine torpedoes, antiship missiles, and one or two main guns of about 100 or 130 mm (4 or 5 inches) in calibre.

It was less than six inches long and was bored in calibres from.36 to.45, with.41 being the most common.

By the 16th century, gunners had adopted the custom of describing the length of a cannon's bore in calibres, that is, in multiples of the bore diameter.

In addition to the discussion regarding complexity, increased short-term variation in airway calibre in patients with asthma is observed, and reproduced experimentally with activation of airway smooth muscle with inhaled methacholine [ 5].

Multiple segments of narrowing in vessel calibre in basilar artery (c) were also improved after therapy (d).

The data are consistent with the notion that pain triggers changes in vessel calibre in migraine and cluster headache, not vice versa.