as in to measure
to determine the correct value of (something)
The age of the tree was calibrated from the carbon dating data.
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Recent Examples of calibrate
Our water systems are calibrated to assure safe and effective levels of fluoride.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 15 May 2025
The women in Trollope’s work seem to understand how curtailed their lives are, and their behavior—as the pet of their husband or of their father—is calibrated in response to the preposterous conditions of being a woman in the nineteenth century.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2025
The most successful travelers on this journey into uncharted hybrid territory will be those who can curate the magic of natural and artificial intelligences intentionally, calibrating the hybrid equilibrium that is the sweet spot where their own unique potential is revealed.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
This may help explain why Trump’s latest attacks on the network, for all their apparent explosivity, are nonetheless carefully calibrated.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 May 2025
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 15 May 2025
The women in Trollope’s work seem to understand how curtailed their lives are, and their behavior—as the pet of their husband or of their father—is calibrated in response to the preposterous conditions of being a woman in the nineteenth century.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2025
The most successful travelers on this journey into uncharted hybrid territory will be those who can curate the magic of natural and artificial intelligences intentionally, calibrating the hybrid equilibrium that is the sweet spot where their own unique potential is revealed.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
This may help explain why Trump’s latest attacks on the network, for all their apparent explosivity, are nonetheless carefully calibrated.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calibrate
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The most telling way to measure Timber’s impact is that, even when White returned from injury in February, Arteta stuck with the Dutchman until he was lost to the ankle problem that kept him out for the final month of the season.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
28 May 2025
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Boyer and his colleagues measured the concentrations of ammonia and other gases in the air roughly five miles away from a colony of 60,000 Adélie penguins in Antarctica.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2025
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Models efficient enough to run offline and without the need for computing in the cloud have gained steam in the AI community in recent years.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Meanwhile, another side was full of PC monitors and prebuilt desktops and laptops, giving consumers a wide range of computing options.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
30 May 2025
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Despite the rise in dollar amounts, beneficiaries are seeing the value of these payments eroded by inflation and structural issues in how COLAs are calculated.—
Dan Cody,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 2025
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Individuals have their body weight and height measured to calculate their body mass index (BMI), a simple calculation used to assess whether a person has a healthy body weight for their height.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
28 May 2025
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“Calibrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calibrate. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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