The act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument

Usage examples of calibration.

After three months of testing and calibration, INTELSAT 707 was nudged into its geostationary orbit high above the tiny West African island nation of Sao Tome and Principe.

It requires calibrations to be made against higher harmonics of very low frequency sounds, where the higher harmonics are in the range of the intervals that you are calibrating against.

The main reason to doubt that this type of arithmetic plays a significant role in the calibration of interval perception is the same as the second reason given above for supposing that higher harmonics are not involved in this calibration: complex fractions are not observed to be significant in music perception.

The first type of calibration would involve the human ear, nervous system and auditory cortex all being pre-programmed to grow and develop in such a way that the intervals between different pairs of pitch values whose frequencies are in the same ratios are perceived as the same intervals.

The high-energy proton spectrpmetry clusters flunked out, too, as did the gravimetric distortion mapping scanner, the fixed angle gamma frequency counter, the wide-angle EM radiation imaging scanner, the quark population analysis counter, the Z-range particulate spectrometry sensor, the low-frequency EM flux sensor, the localized subspace field stress sensor, the parametric subspace field stress sensor, the hydrogen-filter subspace flux scanner, the linear calibration subspace flux sensor, the variable band optical imagining cluster, the virtual aperture graviton flux spectrometer, the high-resolution graviton flux spectrometer, the very low energy graviton spin pola-rimeter, the passive imaging gamma interferometry sensor, the low-level imagining sensor, the virtual particle mapping camera, and even the life-form analysis instrument counter.

The calibration is critical, so we have to have people with both maintenance and operational experience.

From his comments, Krishia deduced that the first blast was for calibration purposes only.

He occupied himself with repeating systems checks and performing useless calibrations, wishing he'd at least thought to bring along a magazine, or his VR headset.

To further this delicious calibration he slightly bent and parted his legs, urging himself forward half a famished millimetre.

The Greenhill confirmed the beacon calibrations and the Rosenkrantz headed out to the Chung Complex.

Some of the more difficult calculations involved rechecking calibrations on the electronic gear, which required the help of crew work parties.

And he turned to her, his expression one of recklessness, "Once we've done enough calibrations to be sure the focus is accurate, let's dis­pense with the rest of Honshu's catalogue and focus on what­ever strikes our fancy.

Include specific calibrations and readings for Pa’haquel biosigns and warp-signature data.

Two of our crewmembers, acting under the creatures’ influence, gave them access to our sensor information and shield calibrations, and the specifications for replicating the necessary components for themselves.

I’ll need your speed to run some calibrations on the new multichannel stabilizer or we’ll never get back on track.