caliber square (kaliberskwar)

A rule carrying two cro -heads, one of which is ad justed slightly by a nut, the other being movable along the rule. On one side the cro heads are adapted to the measurement of interior diameters or sizes, and on Caliber-square. the other side to the measurement of external sizes. Also caliper-square. calibogus (kal-i-bo'gus), n. An American cant name for a drink made of rum and spruce beer. calibrate (kal'i-brāt), v. t.; pret. and pp. cal i brated, ppr. calibrating. [ It is, however, po ible to calibrate the galvanometer, -that is, to ascertain by special measurements, or by comparison with a standard instrument, to what strengths of current particular amounts of deflection correspond. S. P. Thompson , Elect, and Mag., p. 163. calibration (kal-i-bra's hon), n . [ calibrate + -ion .] The act or proce of calibrating, especially of ascertaining the caliber of a thermometer-tube, with the view of graduating it to a scale of degrees, or, if graduated, of discovering and measuring any errors due to inequality in the bore; also, the determination of the true values of the divisions of any graduated scale. [The name] Calico - back [has reference] to the curiously variegated plumage of the upper parts. Sportsman's Gazetteer , p. 164.