calibrates

present tense third-person singular of calibrate

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Recent Examples of calibrates Blue beautifully calibrates Edward's transformation, aided by Jason Orlenko's costume design, moving from a prep school graduate's outfit to a slinky look in the final scene. Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 20 Oct. 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 The system reads the current and calibrates it to reflect an estimate of blood alcohol concentration, or BAC. Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for calibrates
Verb
  • The Cotton Incorporated Lifestyle Monitor™ Survey is an ongoing research program that measures consumer attitudes and behaviors relating to apparel, shopping, fashion, sustainability, and more.
    Catherine Salfino, Sourcing Journal, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Once in orbit, the satellite will unfold a mirror that measures 60 by 60 feet (18 by 18 meters) in order to demonstrate its ability to direct sunlight down onto targets on Earth.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • When a question is asked of the FLM, the trust model removes non-domain vocabulary, computes a latent space representation and measures how close this vector is to the knowledge anchors.
    Scott Zoldi, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Once a possible collision is identified, CREAM automatically computes the best strategy to avoid danger – a job that normally requires a lot of human input.
    David Szondy August 26, New Atlas, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The program, which calculates values that can be used to set limits for pollutants in drinking water and cleanup levels for toxic sites, has been a frequent target of industry.
    Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Reflect Orbital’s own staggering projection of 250,000 satellites still calculates to only delivering the target 20% of midday sun to a very limited number of regions simultaneously.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2025

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