Sentence examples for calliper from inspiring English sources

Caliper, also spelled calliper, measuring instrument that consists of two adjustable legs or jaws for measuring the dimensions of material parts.

"He lost so much weight he had to be fitted with a calliper to support one of his legs," Alan says.

Sam Troughton's Vince, in a desperate attempt to remind the family of who he is, plays piano tunes on his teeth, and Lauren Ambrose, who gives a sparkling performance as his girlfriend, later brandishes Bradley's calliper as if it were a deadly weapon.

In April 1951, just before his ninth birthday, his withered left leg now encased in a calliper, he was sent to Chailey Heritage Craft School, where children with varying degrees of disability were taught, usually in the open air, the benefits of hard work and self-sufficiency.

A fixed wheel counts as a rear brake, but you still need a calliper on the front.

I've ridden fixed for several years and while lots of people I ride with do go brakeless, I have a front calliper.

Using a mix of computerised tomography and mundane measurements with callipers, they assessed the lengths, widths, thicknesses, densities and bending potential of the bones of the modern animals and compared them with those gleaned from Anurognathus fossils.Anurognathus's mouth, they found, was similar to the mouths of nightjars, which also sally after prey (though they do hawk as well).

Once there, they use tape measures, callipers and a hand-held laser to measure the heights and girths of all the trees within a 500-square-metre plot.

The larger the swelling, the greater the immune stress on the bird and the more energy its immune system is consuming to fight off the effects of pathogens.Measuring the swelling with pressure-sensitive callipers allowed Dr Spottiswoode to determine the strength of each bird's immune system.

"Because my problem was with the thighs, and their muscle development, they would strap you into tight iron callipers for several hours a day," he said.

Research from lobby group Shechita UK indicates that wholesale stunning by captive-bolt, electric callipers or tongs is often brutally ineffective and animals die in pain.