calibration

English

Etymology

From calibrate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.əˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.əˈbɹæɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

calibration (countable and uncountable, plural calibrations)

1. The act of calibrating something.

   The thermostat needs calibration.

Derived terms

• autocalibration
• calibrationless
• crosscalibration
• intercalibration
• miscalibration
• overcalibration
• Platt calibration
• precalibration
• recalibration

Related terms

• calibre
• calibrate

Translations

act of calibrating

Arabic: معايرة Bulgarian: калибро́вка f (kalibróvka) Catalan: calibratge m Chinese: Mandarin: 校準 / 校准 (zh) (jiàozhǔn), 校正 (zh) (jiàozhèng) Czech: kalibrace f Danish: kalibrering c Finnish: kalibrointi (fi) French: étalonnage (fr) m, calibrage (fr) m German: Kalibrierung f Greek: βαθμονόμηση (el) f (vathmonómisi), διαμέτρηση (el) f (diamétrisi), διακρίβωση (el) f (diakrívosi) Indonesian: kalibrasi (id), penaraan Italian: calibrazione Japanese: 較正 (ja) (こうせい, kōsei), キャリブレーション (kyariburēshon), 校正 (ja) (kōsei), 調整 (ja) (chousei) Korean: 조정 (ko) (jojeong) Macedonian: калибрација f (kalibracija) Norwegian: Bokmål: kalibrering m or f Nynorsk: kalibrering f Portuguese: calibração (pt) f Romanian: calibrare (ro) f, calibraj (ro) n Russian: калибро́вка (ru) f (kalibróvka), калиброва́ние (ru) n (kalibrovánije) Spanish: calibración (es) f Swedish: kalibrering (sv) c Telugu: క్రమాంకనం (kramāṅkanaṁ) Turkish: kalibrasyon (tr), kalibraj (tr)

Further reading

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