as in measures
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 calibrates
The survey calibrates and releases data that anyone can download.
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Adam Harrington, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2026
The laser calibrates itself before printing, burning a dozen or so small lines into the board, and using the camera to figure out the ideal focal point based on the crispness of the lines.
—PC Magazine, 22 Nov. 2025
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
Adam Harrington, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2026
The laser calibrates itself before printing, burning a dozen or so small lines into the board, and using the camera to figure out the ideal focal point based on the crispness of the lines.
—PC Magazine, 22 Nov. 2025
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
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The property’s lot measures 4,640 square feet in area.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
8 Jan. 2026
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The radio chart measures the number of plays each song received in a particular week.—
Taylor Ardrey,
USA Today,
2 Jan. 2026
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Outside of the payrolls and CPI report, the BLS also computes data on import and export prices, job openings, producer prices, productivity and other metrics.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
14 Nov. 2025
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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
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Zillow calculates the value of a typical home using the average middle third of home values (eliminating statistical anomalies at the high and low end).—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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Randolph said then that the agency, known by the acronym CARB, calculates impacts to health and health disparities in certain communities but not the retail costs to consumers.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
26 Jan. 2026
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