- inside caliber
- (th) calibru de interior
English-Romanian technical dictionary. 2013.
English-Romanian technical dictionary. 2013.
caliber — 1560s, degree of merit or importance, from M.Fr. calibre (late 15c.), apparently ultimately from Arabic qalib a mold for casting. Arabic also used the word in the sense mold for casting bullets, which is the original literal meaning in English,… … Etymology dictionary
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 French calibre , itself from qālib (قالب), Arabic word for mold , itself from kalamoys , Greek word for wooden… … Wikipedia
caliber — (cal) 1. a unit used to express the bore of a gun. (The bore is the inside diameter of the gun barrel.) Traditionally, the diameter was stated in inches, so that .22 caliber referred to a pistol having a bore of 0.22 inches (5.588 mm). This… … Dictionary of units of measurement
caliber — calibered; esp. Brit., calibred, adj. /kal euh beuhr/, n. 1. the diameter of something of circular section, esp. that of the inside of a tube: a pipe of three inch caliber. 2. Ordn. the diameter of the bore of a gun taken as a unit of measurement … Universalium
caliber — cal•i•ber [[t]ˈkæl ə bər[/t]] n. 1) wam the diameter of a circular section, esp. the inside of a tube 2) mil the diameter of the bore of a gun taken as a unit of measurement 3) degree of capacity or competence; ability Also, esp. brit. cal′i•bre … From formal English to slang
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