Acronym meanings of CALIB. Acronym & meanings of CALIB

An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses.

Calibre

The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet or column.

Calibre

Fig.: Capacity or compass of mind.

Minion

An ancient form of ordnance, the caliber of which was about three inches.

Calibre

The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will carry; as, an 8 inch gun, a 12-pounder, a 44 caliber.

Bore

The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.

Caliber

Alt. of Calibre

Derringer

A kind of short-barreled pocket pistol, of very large caliber, often carrying a half-ounce ball.

Calibrate

v. i.

To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.

Bore

Caliber; importance.

Calibration

The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument.

Volume

Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.

Metal

The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war.

Subcaliber

Smaller than the caliber of a firearm.

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