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How to pronounce calibration in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms standardisation, standardization
Type of activity
Has types adjustment, readjustment, registration, tuning
Derivation calibrate


the thermometer needed calibration.

Examples of calibration

calibration
Performs calibration, maintenance, and cleaning as part of job responsibilities.
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It is especially important for the calibration of the placental molecular trees.
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Prepare reports and keep records on calibration inspection, testing, and repair.
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Ensure proper use of tool and gauging and that calibration requirements are met.
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Calibration removes certain systemic human estimate biases, but not all of them.
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These errors can sometimes be mitigated by calibration, or prevented by testing.
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Yamaha's IntelliBeam autosetup and calibration system couldn't be easier to use.
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Dragotti and Baboulaz are also working on a way to skip the calibration process.
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A spatial and spectral calibration of a panchromatic, multispectral image pair.
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More examples
  • The act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument; "the thermometer needed calibration"
  • (calibrate) make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder"
  • (calibrate) 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"
  • (calibrate) measure the caliber of; "calibrate a gun"
  • (calibrated) marked with or divided into degrees; "a calibrated thermometer"
  • 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
  • Stock removal is the process of removing material (stock) from a workpiece. Stock removal processes include: *Machining *Milling *Turning *Drilling *Grinding *Filling *Broaching *Shaping *Planing *Sawing
  • 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...