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calibrate Definition

cali·brate (kalə brāt′)

transitive verb -·brat′ed, -·brat′·ing

  1. to determine the caliber of
  2. to fix, check, or correct the graduations of (a measuring instrument, as a thermometer)

calibrate Related Forms
cal′i·bra·tion noun cali·bra′·tor noun
calibrate Telecom Definition
To measure the accuracy of a device, instrument, system, or process relative to a known standard and to adjust it, as necessary, in order that it conform to that standard over the range of its operation.
calibrate Usage Examples

Object

  • speedometer: This also holds good for the following check using the calibrated speedometer.
  • thermometer: How will you allow the user to calibrate the thermometer to his desired settings?
  • axle: Technical data: 27z aluminum crown, 9z bronze pinion, detailed hubcaps, steel calibrate axles and bronze calibrate bearings.
  • compass: The legs were chosen so as to include both wall corners which had been chosen to calibrate the compass.
  • sensor: You can easily calibrate sensors without stopping the production line.
  • magnitude: Imag The DENIS I-band total magnitude calibrated by comparison with the I-band measurements of Mathewson at al.

Infinitive complement

  • read: The indicator is calibrated to read directly in percent RPM.
  • give: The third can be calibrated to give an indication of average speed.
  • provide: The OSCAR ( Road ) data as supplied will need to be calibrated to provide accurate appliance travel times.
  • measure: This is calibrated to measure the ' old ' pennies placed round the church, and also convert them into ' new pence ' .

Present participle complement

  • accord: In other words, the model was calibrated according to our data.

Modifying Another Word

  • precisely: Were chatting yesterday quot you can a precisely calibrated.
  • correctly: Color Bars - A test pattern used to check whether a video system is calibrated correctly.
  • finely: In general, monitoring biophysical properties of forests requires multispectral information and finely calibrated data.
  • individually: Therefore, each barrel would need to be individually calibrated.
  • accurately: The flask used for the dilution will also need to be accurately calibrated.
  • carefully: These limp jokes server only to dump me out of the games carefully calibrated dread machine.

Preposition: in

  • accordance: All items are calibrated in accordance with controlled procedures.
  • inch: Leaving aside the madness of getting into them, did we suffer in the two world wars because our weapons were calibrated in inches?
  • term: This relation was calibrated in terms of casualty data for 1997 from the STATS19 national accident reporting system.

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