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calibrate
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Word definitions for calibrate in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1839, verb formed from caliber + -ate (2). Related: calibrated ; calibrating .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A second experiment is then performed to calibrate the calorimeter. ▪ Death was being held at bay, measured, calibrated, and analyzed. ▪ Hence, the scale of the meter can be calibrated directly in terms of PCO2. ▪ In the preschool ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calibrate \Cal"i*brate\, v. i. To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder" [syn: graduate , fine-tune ] mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units; "he calibrated ...
Usage examples of calibrate.
The line was calibrated to a tensile strength of one hundred twenty pounds, for it was designed to withstand the deep-water surges of giant marlin and bluefin tuna.
I will expect the engines calibrated and ready by no later than the twenty-eighth.
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.
This suggests that the brain does not bother to use higher harmonics for the purpose of calibrating comparisons of interval sizes.
A few seconds later, the drivers for the new reeker loaded, and he was ready to calibrate.
Out of the corner of her eye she could see her coiled up stethoscope and the calibrated case of the sphygmomanometer waiting to be tidied away.
This spot was where the tanks of his 3rd Mechanized Brigade came to calibrate their cannons and season their new recruits, their own Sashas and Pashas.
By June this year, I had my new instrument built, rebuilt, and calibrated against the Ankh, the Tetragrammaton, and the Pentacle Reversed.
Kawahara stayed expressionless for a moment, then bestowed on me another carefully calibrated smile.
Everything has been carefully worked out and calibrated and rechecked via simulation.
Next to it was one that had been calibrated to do the same for the asteroid.
Vittoria aligned the scope with one of the canisters, peered into the eyepiece, and calibrated some knobs.
Meanwhile, on the ground, Ortega and Cummins knelt with the test instruments, ready to calibrate and fine-tune the antenna.
Vialmir, in complete rapport with Landon and Mathisfor Landon had calibrated the augmentation beam to include him and Cleta toohad no trouble in expressing himself in any language they knew.
You don't know what concordance of factors and variables yields that calibrated can't-miss feeling, and you don't want to soil the magic by trying to figure it out, but you don't want to change your grip, your stick, your side of the court, your angle of incidence to the sun.