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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This guidance is murky enough that developers must interpret vague ideological cues, then quietly calibrate what their models can say, show, or even learn to avoid crossing a line that’s never clearly drawn.
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Craig Spencer, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
The VitaFreshPro system calibrates temperature settings for different food zones, while dual compressors eliminate odor transfer between compartments.
—Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 29 Aug. 2025
For starters, the machine is calibrated to pull a single or double shot at the right pressure and time for you.
—Mark Marino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Aug. 2025
But leaders should be calibrating on goals and performance expectations, ratings, rating differentiations and job mobility or promotion criteria.
—Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Craig Spencer, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
The VitaFreshPro system calibrates temperature settings for different food zones, while dual compressors eliminate odor transfer between compartments.
—Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 29 Aug. 2025
For starters, the machine is calibrated to pull a single or double shot at the right pressure and time for you.
—Mark Marino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Aug. 2025
But leaders should be calibrating on goals and performance expectations, ratings, rating differentiations and job mobility or promotion criteria.
—Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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After the mysterious deaths of the two diamondback rattlesnakes, Cardwell dug up temperature data from a 20-year-old study in the Mojave Desert to help develop a mathematical model for measuring what might be happening inside the desert burrows.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Trades finalize in three to five seconds, enabling near-instant payment finality, and transaction fees are measured in fractions of a cent.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Previous designs have been used in specialized applications, such as connecting computing units inside data centers where speed is critical.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
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Those numbers were more than sufficient to land Flock on Forbes’ 2025 Cloud 100 list of the top private cloud computing companies.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The payments are calculated to increase by 5% every year.—
George Petras,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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Dennis Culhane, a University of Pennsylvania professor who specializes in homelessness and housing policy, calculated that the number of men older than 60 living in shelters roughly tripled from 2000 to 2020.—
Felice J. Freyer,
Miami Herald,
3 Sep. 2025
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