Definition of Inside caliper

1. Noun. Caliper for measuring inside dimensions (the size of a cavity or hole); points on its legs curve outward.

Generic synonyms: Caliper, Calliper

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inside Caliper

inshrining
insiccation
inside
inside(a)
inside-out
inside-out(p)
inside-outness
inside-the-Beltway
inside-the-park homer
inside-the-park homers
inside-the-parker
inside address
inside addresses
inside back
inside baseball
inside caliper (current term)
inside centre
inside clinch
inside dealing
inside diameter
inside edge
inside edged
inside edges
inside edging
inside information
inside job
inside jobs
inside joke
inside jokes
inside lag

Literary usage of Inside caliper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Machine-shop Tools and Methods by William Samuel Leonard (1908)
"To make an accurate measurement with the inside caliper, hold one leg against the ... To transfer the measurement from the inside caliper to the outside, ..."

2. Elementary Machine Shop Practice by James Alfred Pratt (1921)
"32 the inside caliper or vice versa. The method of holding the tools for ... Holding the inside caliper in the right hand, one leg should be set on the ..."

3. Machinery's Reference Series (1908)
"better way is to have two short pins, CC' set in the sides of the inside caliper legs, but this is not readily done as a makeshift. ..."

4. Railway Shop Kinks edited by Roy V. Wright (1911)
"The inside caliper is used for getting the inside measurement of the ... The outside caliper is then set to the inside caliper, allowing a certain amount ..."

5. Elementary Practical Physics: A Guide for the Physical Laboratory by Horatio Nelson Chute (1889)
"The inside diameter can best be found by means of the inside caliper (Fig. 12). ... In the absence of an inside caliper bend a piece of annealed wire into a ..."

6. Manual Training Magazine (1914)
"in pocket case, center gage, 4" caliper, 4" outside caliper with solid nut, 4" inside caliper with solid nut, 4" divider with solid nut. No. ..."

7. Wood Pattern-making: The Fundamental Principles and Elementary Practice of by Horace Traiton Purfield (1906)
"The outside caliper may be used when the work is revolving, provided it is very FIG. 59. FIG. 60. nearly cylindrical. The inside caliper should not be ..."

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