What is "calibrating"

Usage examples of "calibrating".

But so far, Kerry's been unsuccessful at calibrating the sensors remotely from Island One.

The programmer had frozen in the act of calibrating one of the sensors: His palmtop computer was held in one outstretched hand, and the index finger of his other was resting on it, looking ridiculously as if he was pointing into his own palm.

Glancing up, he saw the young man leaning on the ladder perhaps twenty feet above him, beside a flag Hatch had placed, calibrating the sensor.

He applied an old-fashioned corkscrew with methodical precision as if he were still in a laboratory, calibrating a piece of equipment.

Butterworth and Voss started calibrating a piece of equipment that was outside Bayley's field of view.

Sura had been calibrating the radiative coolers, checking the hypothermia drugs.

His calibrating tool, which was in no way remarkable from any other tool supplied by the Transport Department, would be nipped from him, and slid into a Jecc's pouch beneath its coveralls.

Solly busied himself calibrating instruments that probably needed no attention.