as in measuring
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 calibrating
But leaders should be calibrating on goals and performance expectations, ratings, rating differentiations and job mobility or promotion criteria.
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Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
BikeOn View gallery - 3 images While power meters are very handy tools for tracking your cycling performance, mounting and calibrating the things can be a fiddly process.
—New Atlas, 20 Aug. 2025
New economic techniques for calibrating the impact of ACMDs are being developed, and could perhaps be applied to estimate ACMS costs in defining case-specific trade remedies, especially tariffs.
—Alden Abbott, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Oshkosh has allegedly had problems calibrating the vehicles’ airbags and with leak tests, which have slowed production.
—Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 Dec. 2024
For now, there are signs that Beijing is still processing the enormous development and is calibrating its response.
—Eric X. Li, Foreign Affairs, 9 Dec. 2016
Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
BikeOn View gallery - 3 images While power meters are very handy tools for tracking your cycling performance, mounting and calibrating the things can be a fiddly process.
—New Atlas, 20 Aug. 2025
New economic techniques for calibrating the impact of ACMDs are being developed, and could perhaps be applied to estimate ACMS costs in defining case-specific trade remedies, especially tariffs.
—Alden Abbott, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Oshkosh has allegedly had problems calibrating the vehicles’ airbags and with leak tests, which have slowed production.
—Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 Dec. 2024
For now, there are signs that Beijing is still processing the enormous development and is calibrating its response.
—Eric X. Li, Foreign Affairs, 9 Dec. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for calibrating
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The sPHENIX detector at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) proved its precision in measuring the aftermath of gold ion collisions.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Sep. 2025
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The star, classified as IRAS 04302+2247, or IRAS 04302, is a protostar, with its disk measuring at around 40 billion miles (65 billion km) wide.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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The platform’s scaling technology automatically adjusts computing resources in near real-time, ensuring that AI applications remain performant even during spikes in demand.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
28 Aug. 2025
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In partnership, the two companies plan to develop open, scalable platforms that could transform how the world thinks about computing.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Calibrating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calibrating. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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