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caliber::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | calibre, quality |
| Type of | degree, grade, level |
| Has types | inferiority, low quality, superiority, high quality |
an executive of low caliber.
Examples of caliber
caliber
The city should do its best to attract a similar caliber buyer for the property.
From the dailyherald.com
A loaded .45 caliber handgun was recovered after officers saw him toss a weapon.
From the bostonherald.com
I also received feedback from the pilots about the high caliber of our students.
From the thenewstribune.com
Five handguns and two small caliber, semi-automatic rifles were stolen, he said.
From the stltoday.com
He hit .257 with 27 homers and 91 RBI, while playing Gold Glove-caliber defense.
From the usatoday.com
They've gotten MVP-caliber guys who disappeared the moment they became Redskins.
From the washingtonpost.com
The shooter, a Columbia attorney, had a permit to carry his .32-caliber handgun.
From the thestate.com
Evidence showed that both women were shot in the head with a .45-caliber pistol.
From the tennessean.com
The reports say Wood never let go of a silver .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol.
From the sltrib.com
- Quality: a degree or grade of excellence or worth; "the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber"
- Bore: diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- In guns including firearms, caliber or calibre is the approximate diameter of the barrel and by extension the projectile used in it, measured in inches or millimetres.
- In artillery, caliber is the diameter of a barrel, or by extension a relative measure of the length.
- Caliber, in comics, may refer to: * Caliber Comics, an American comic book publisher * Caliber (Radical Comics), a comic book limited series from Radical Comics * Caliber (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain and enemy of Alpha Flight
- Caliber: at the beginning the denomination indicated only the size of a watch movement.
- US spelling of calibre
- In rocketry, the diameter of the main body tube. Usually used when refering to some function of length, e.g. "The CP should be behind the CG by at least one caliber." The term is borrowed from the small arms industry where it refers to the bore of a rifle or pistol barrel, e.g. a . ...
- The nominal diameter of a projectile of a rifled firearm or the diameter between lands in a rifled barrel. In this country, usually expressed in hundreds of an inch; in Great Britain in thousandths; in Europe and elsewhere in millimeters.
