calibrate
calibrate
Definition
cali·brate (kal′ə brāt′)
transitive verb -·brat′ed, -·brat′·ing
- to determine the caliber of
- to fix, check, or correct the graduations of (a measuring instrument, as a thermometer)
cal′i·bra′·tion noun
cal′i·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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