caliper

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

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

On a recent weekday, a dozen biologists armed with nets, calipers and notebooks gathered before daybreak at the Angeles National Forest site to take a full accounting of one of California’s great wildlife spectacles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2023

They include tools such as wrought iron calipers, letters and other personal items.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2021

With the suspicious attention of a diamond merchant he examined the banana meticulously, dissecting it with a special scalpel, weighing the pieces on a pharmacist's scale, and calculating its breadth with a gunsmith's calipers.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez