caliber Значение & определение

Значение на caliber на български

• 0 the quality of someone or something, especially someone's ability:

  • If teaching paid more it might attract people of (a) higher caliber.

  • The competition entries were of such (a) high caliber that judging them was very difficult.

• 1 the width of the inside of a pipe, especially of the long cylinder-shaped part of a gun, or the width of a bullet

• 2 the degree of quality or excellence of something or someone:

  • It’s not easy to recruit high caliber personnel.

• 3 the width of the inside of a pipe, esp. of the long, cylindrical part of a gun, or the width of a bullet:

  • a .22-caliber rifle