caliber
n.
diameter (of a gun barrel, artery, etc.); quality; importance
Caliber
The term caliber or calibre designates the interior
diameter of a tube or the exterior diameter of a wire or rod. It comes from the Italian calibro, itself from qālib (قالب), Arabic word for
mold.The term most often appears with respect to
firearms, as a measure of the inside diameter of the
barrel in inches or hundredths of an inch, or in millimetres.
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Caliber
(n.)
Alt. of Calibre
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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caliber
Noun
1. a degree or grade of excellence or worth; "the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber"
(synonym) quality, calibre
(hypernym) degree, grade, level
(hyponym) superiority, high quality
(attribute) superior
2. diameter of a tube or gun barrel
(synonym) bore, gauge, calibre
(hypernym) diameter, diam
(derivation) calibrate
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