mensurate vs caliper

mensurate is not a noun while caliper is a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mensurate	No	No	Yes	No
caliper	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, caliper is a hyponym of mensurate; that is, caliper is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than mensurate:

mensurate: determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of
caliper: measure the diameter of something with calipers

Other hyponyms of mensurate include shoot, triangulate, calliper, calibrate.

mensurate (noun)	caliper (noun)
	an instrument for measuring the distance between two points

mensurate (verb)	caliper (verb)
determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of	measure the diameter of something with calipers