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Calibre vs Amount - What's the difference?

calibre | amount |

As verbs the difference between calibre and amount

is that calibre is while amount is to total or evaluate.

As a noun amount is

the total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard english).

calibre

English

Alternative forms

* caliber (US)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Diameter of the bore of a firearm, typically measured between opposite lands.
  • The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet, a projectile, or a column.
  • A nominal name for a cartridge type, which may not exactly indicate its true size and may include other measurements such as cartridge length or black powder capacity. Eg 7.62×39 or 38.40.
  • Unit of measure used to express the length of the bore of a weapon. The number of calibres is determined by dividing the length of the bore of the weapon, from the breech face of the tube to the muzzle, by the diameter of its bore. A gun tube the bore of which is 40 feet (480 inches) long and 12 inches in diameter is said to be 40 calibers long.
  • (figuratively) Relative size, importance, magnitude.
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  • (figuratively) Capacity or compass of mind.
    • (Burke)
  • (dated) Degree of importance or station in society.

    • Related terms

    * calibrate * calibration * calipers

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    References

    The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., Clarendon Press, 1989.

    amount

    English

    (Quantity)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
  • A quantity or volume.
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  • The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
  • * 2001 , Gisella Gori, Towards an EU right to education , page 195:
    • The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.

    Derived terms

    * principal amount * notional amount

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To total or evaluate.
    • It amounts to three dollars and change.
  • To be the same as or equivalent to.
    • He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
    His response amounted to gross insubordination
  • (obsolete) To go up; to ascend.
  • * Spenser
    • So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.

    Derived terms

    * amount to

    See also

    * extent * magnitude * measurement * number * quantity * size

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    Anagrams

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