Thesaurus results for CALIBRATION

calibration

noun

as in measurement

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Recent Examples of calibration Electrode calibration needs to be personalized to each body. —

Omar Kardoudi april 13, New Atlas, 13 Apr. 2026 Freed from all the entanglements that come with having to launch a ground invasion, air war can overfly not just morality and law but arguments, rationales, the calibration of risks to rewards and of suffering to satisfaction. —

Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026 Clothing becomes less about costume and more about calibration. —

Essence, 1 Apr. 2026 Puppeteering at that level involved not only physical choreography but precise breath calibration — Katharine Hepburn was an inspiration — to bring audio and visual personality to a complex set of steel rods, a fiberglass shell, and animatronic fingers. —

Emma Forgione, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for calibration

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measurement

Noun

Scientists have not, however, been able to converge on a measurement with a level of precision comparable to that of constants such as the speed of light (299,792,458 meters per second) or Planck’s constant, which is known to eight decimal places.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 7 May 2026
Typically, footprint measurements are around 7 by 10 inches or 8 by 11 inches.

— BestReviews, Mercury News, 7 May 2026