Caliber | Mean of caliber in English Dictionary

/ˈkæləbɚ/

• Noun
• level of excellence, skill, etc.
1. The school will only hire teachers of the highest caliber. [=will only hire the best teachers]
2. I was impressed by the high caliber of the team's work.
3. It is exciting to meet a writer of his caliber. [=a writer as good/skillful as he is]
4. The two colleges are not of the same caliber. [=one of the colleges is better than the other]
• a measurement of the width of a bullet or a gun barrel
1. a .22-caliber bullet [=a bullet that is 22 hundredths of an inch in diameter]
2. a high-caliber bullet