calibrate

English

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Calibration

Wikipedia

Etymology

From caliber or calibre +‎ -ate.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.ɪ.bɹeɪt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.ə.bɹeɪt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.ə.bɹæɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Verb

calibrate (third-person singular simple present calibrates, present participle calibrating, simple past and past participle calibrated)

1. To check or adjust by comparison with a standard.
   • 2024 September 7, David Hytner, “Rice and Grealish start new England era with Nations League victory in Ireland”, in The Guardian‎:

     Trent Alexander-Arnold was prominent in the early running, stepping up from right-back into midfield, calibrating his passing range. He had already teed up Harry Kane for a free header – the captain headed high – when he sent Anthony Gordon clean through.

2. To mark the scale of a measuring instrument.
3. To measure the caliber of a tube or gun.

Synonyms

• (check or adjust by comparison with a standard): tune

Derived terms

• autocalibrating
• calibratable
• calibrator
• decalibrate
• intercalibrate
• miscalibrate
• recalibrate

Related terms

• caliber/calibre
• calibration

Translations

to check or adjust by comparison with a standard

Bulgarian: калибрирам (kalibriram) Catalan: calibrar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 校準 / 校准 (zh) (jiàozhǔn) Czech: kalibrovat Esperanto: kalibri Finnish: kalibroida (fi) French: étalonner (fr), calibrer (fr) German: kalibrieren (de) Greek: βαθμονομώ (el) (vathmonomó), διαβαθμίζω (el) (diavathmízo) Hebrew: כייל (kiyél) Italian: calibrare (it) Japanese: 調整する (ja) (ちょうせいする, chōsei suru), 較正する (ja) (こうせいする, kōsei suru) Maori: tohu ine Polish: kalibrować Portuguese: calibrar (pt) Russian: калибри́ровать (ru) (kalibrírovatʹ) Spanish: calibrar (es) Swedish: kalibrera (sv) Ukrainian: калібрува́ти (uk) impf (kalibruváty), відкалібро́вувати impf (vidkalibróvuvaty) (rare), відкалібрува́ти pf (vidkalibruváty)

To mark the scale of a measuring instrument

Bulgarian: градуирам (bg) (graduiram) Dutch: kalibreer (nl)

Further reading

• “calibrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “calibrate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• bacterial

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

calibrate

1. inflection of calibrare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

calibrate f pl

1. feminine plural of calibrato

Spanish

Verb

calibrate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of calibrar combined with te