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On a boat tour of the treatment area, Varley and Zurfluh told the Statesman that eradicating the mussels requires constant calibration of the copper levels in the water, a complicated task that demands everything from scuba dives to dozens of water samples each day.
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Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 14 Oct. 2025
Besides a brief demo showing the new robot undergoing a wobbly calibration, the action comes exclusively from older Figure 02s.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Additional limitations of the study include that the approach requires careful calibration to correct for light interference between the two systems, which is a technical challenge.
—New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2025
The atomic method does not need calibration; the rate at which fluorescence dims depending on the vacuum pressure can be calculated accurately.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2025
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Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 14 Oct. 2025
Besides a brief demo showing the new robot undergoing a wobbly calibration, the action comes exclusively from older Figure 02s.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Additional limitations of the study include that the approach requires careful calibration to correct for light interference between the two systems, which is a technical challenge.
—New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2025
The atomic method does not need calibration; the rate at which fluorescence dims depending on the vacuum pressure can be calculated accurately.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calibration
measurement
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Careful measurement of these differences might still allow scientists to distinguish between the two scenarios.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Oct. 2025
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The measurements identified 13 elements from this doomed object, including aluminum, carbon, chromium, cobalt, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, nickel, silicon, sodium, strontium and titanium, in mostly Earth-like abundances.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Calibration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calibration. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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