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In guns, particularly firearms, but not artillery, where a different definition may apply, caliber (or calibre; sometimes abbreviated as "cal") is the specified nominal internal diameter of the gun barrel bore – regardless of how or where the bore is measured and whether the finished bore matches that specification. [1]
The gauge (in American English or more commonly referred to as bore in British English) of a firearm is a unit of measurement used to express the inner diameter (bore diameter) and other necessary parameters to define in general a smoothbore barrel (compare to caliber, which defines a barrel with rifling and its cartridge).
Caliber/calibre: In small arms, the internal diameter of a firearm's barrel or a cartridge's bullet, usually expressed in millimeters or hundredths of an inch; in measuring rifled barrels this may be measured across the lands (.303 British) or grooves (.308 Winchester) or; a specific cartridge for which a firearm is chambered, such as .45 ACP or .357 Magnum.
The British standard ordnance weights and measurements for the artillery were established by the Master General of Ordnance in 1764, and these were not altered until 1919, [citation needed] when the metric system was additionally introduced.
Common rifle cartridges, from the largest .50 BMG to the smallest .22 Long Rifle with a $1 United States dollar bill in the background as a reference point.. This is a table of selected pistol/submachine gun and rifle/machine gun cartridges by common name.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... 25 mm caliber; 27×145mmB (STANAG 3820), 27 mm caliber; 30×173mm (STANAG 4624), 30 mm caliber;
In artillery, caliber or calibre [nb 1] is the internal diameter of a gun barrel, or, by extension, a relative measure of the barrel length. Rifled barrels [ edit ]
M designates common V threads (like for instance metric threads); Sq designates square threads; Tr designates trapezoidal threads; The shank length is not always the same at the thread length, which is the case if the insert has a threadless portion (sub-shank)