caliper
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It took a mechanic failing to do up the bolts on a rear brake caliper after qualifying to stop Verstappen winning in Australia two weeks ago.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 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
Some, like the caliper rhinoceros beetle, fence with long, straight points.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2023
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
Several more of them fell while coming over the horse, and two of the women had trouble squeezing the calipers.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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