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Calibre is the measure of a bullet's diameter, or figuratively, a person's quality and ability.
means The diameter of a gun's bore (or bullet), or figuratively, the measure of someone's ability or quality.
from From French 'calibre,' probably borrowed from Italian 'calibro,' whose own roots are murky — possibly traced back to Arabic 'qālib,' meaning a mold or last for shoemaking, by way of medieval Latin. The word first measured the inside of gun barrels, then widened, as so many technical words do, into measuring the inside of a person's character.
- measurement unit
- usually the bullet's diameter in hundredths of an inch
- spelling split
- British calibre, American caliber, same bang
- metric flex
- 9mm is actually about .355 calibre
- other meaning
- also means quality or distinction, unrelated to guns