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What are callipers?

What are callipers? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Britain) Alternative spelling of calipers
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The vernier callipers I guess would do a very fine measurement, down to a millimetre or perhaps less.
His father Harry encouraged him to walk across the living room wearing callipers by sitting across the room with pieces of banana.
Specialist equipment such as splints, callipers and braces can help with paralysis and contractures.
She can now walk short distances with callipers, but spends most of her time in a wheelchair.
The other measuring equipment, apart from the 20-metre tape, we have vernier callipers, feeler strips and telescopic measures.
She extended the callipers like a pair of compasses preparing to plot the landmarks on his face.

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