A person who uses calipers to measure objects, especially in manufacturing, machining, or technical professions.
From caliper plus the agent suffix '-er,' indicating a person who performs the action of measuring with calipers.
Caliperers were essential craftspeople in pre-digital manufacturing—they had to have steady hands and good eyesight to measure metal precisely, and small mistakes could ruin expensive materials.
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