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How to pronounce calibrate in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms fine-tune, graduate
Type of correct, adjust, set
Derivation calibration


calibrate an instrument.
Type Words
Type of tag, label, mark
Derivation calibration


he calibrated the thermometer for the Celsius scale.
Type Words
Type of mensurate, measure out, measure
Derivation caliber


calibrate a gun.

Examples of calibrate

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These data can then be used to calibrate measurements by other microscope tools.
From the sciencedaily.com
They struggle with it, qualify it, rationalise it, calibrate it and question it.
From the guardian.co.uk
Engineering firms turn to companies like Theta Systems to calibrate their tools.
From the newscientist.com
Now public health officials are having to carefully calibrate their statements.
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It's always hard to calibrate the voters'saccharine level in these categories.
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Five cells hold reference samples from Earth to help calibrate the instrument.
From the sciencedaily.com
They then used ground counts and aerial photography to calibrate the analysis.
From the sciencedaily.com
A pre-test explosion was conducted on 7 May 1945 to calibrate the instruments.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Calibrate your schedule to allow for seven to eight hours of sleep per night.
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More examples
  • Make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder"
  • Mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units; "he calibrated the thermometer for the Celsius scale"
  • Measure the caliber of; "calibrate a gun"
  • (calibrated) marked with or divided into degrees; "a calibrated thermometer"
  • (calibration) the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument; "the thermometer needed calibration"
  • Calibration is a comparison between measurements - one of known magnitude or correctness made or set with one device and another measurement made in as similar a way as possible with a second device.
  • In the mathematical field of differential geometry, a calibrated manifold is a Riemannian manifold (M,g) of dimension n equipped with a differential p-form u03C6 (for some 0 u2264 p u2264 n) which is a calibration in the sense that
  • Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far) is the fifth studio album by Omar Rodru00EDguez-Lu00F3pez, and the fourth released in the "Amsterdam series". The album was released in Japan on December 15, 2007 with a following U.S. release later on February 5, 2008, merely a week after The Mars Volta's The Bedlam in Goliath...
  • (Calibration (probability)) Calibrated probability assessments are subjective probabilities assigned by individuals who have been trained to assess probabilities in a way that historically represents their uncertainty . ...