caliper

Why shouldn’t cars in Europe have the same brake caliper or the same air-conditioning compressor as cars in China?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Red Bull said his retirement was caused by a caliper causing the brake to bind on to the disc.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2024

To do the work, the team used a large lathe to spin a detached brake rotor and caliper.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2024

Using a delicate magnetic caliper employed by violin makers to measure in millimeters an instrument’s walls and veneers, the conservators tracked the wood’s thickness at short intervals along the crack.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2024

Using a caliper and other special tools, Agent Burger, with the help of the Dallas police, took eleven of Morrison’s body measurements.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Pulling alongside the Portland Head Light, a lighthouse dating to 1791, Martin yanked up a trap that held three shiny lobsters, and then demonstrated how to measure their shells with calipers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

In the Netflix film, Swan demonstrates with calipers on a life-size, anatomically correct male baby doll in a coffee shop to the nervous titters of the participants.

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026

Sometimes Anis Pradhan would end a 10- or 12-hour workday only to tackle another project — tightening wheel covers, adjusting brake calipers and popping out small dents in a post-World War II single-engine plane.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2024

They measured the chicks’ wing and bill length with a ruler and calipers.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2022

These include the earliest dated set of European navigation instruments found thus far: compasses, protractors, calipers, sounding leads, tide calculators, and a device for calculating speed called a log reel.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler