Thesaurus results for CALIBRATE

calibrate

verb

Definition of calibrate next

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 Drones are hard to pinpoint on radar systems calibrated for spotting high-speed missiles and can be mistaken for birds or planes. —

ABC News, 20 May 2026 Sunlight calibrates the same master clock that’s triggering your dip. —

Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2026 The latter question seems to weigh profoundly on Hamaguchi, whose films feel at once meticulously calibrated and wildly audacious, and who here manages, as never before, to make those seemingly contradictory impulses coexist as one. —

Justin Chang, New Yorker, 18 May 2026 The challenge is calibrating oversight narrow enough to preserve commercial activity but broad enough to address the systemic risks Mythos illustrated. —

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 15 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for calibrate

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Much of Disney’s in-house tech has been integral as advertisers look for specifics to target viewers and measures outcomes.

— Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 31 May 2026
Some very important applications The findings could prove especially important for attosecond science, a field focused on observing electron dynamics over timescales measured in billionths of a billionth of a second.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 31 May 2026