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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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AeroMap has been validated against NASA wind tunnel data, with results showing close agreement between its predictions and experimental measurements, indicating its suitability for sustainable aircraft development, according to a press release.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Nov. 2025
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The hypothesis was based on the taking of distance measurements to faraway galaxies using type 1a supernovae, stellar explosions that occur in twin star systems where one of the stars is a white dwarf.—
Ian Randall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Calibration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calibration. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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