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English to English verb
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make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring |  | Example: calibrate an instrument
graduate a cylinder
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mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units | | Example: he calibrated the thermometer for the Celsius scale
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measure the caliber of | | Example: calibrate a gun
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To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments. | | source: webster1913
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