Calibrate
verb
To adjust a tool or device, so that it can work accurately.
Before starting the experiment, you need to calibrate the scale.
Often appears as...
- calibrate a device
- calibrate a machine
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To adjust, evaluate or set something in relation to a standard.
The therapist needs to calibrate the treatment plan as per the patient's progress.
Often appears as...
- calibrate a plan
- calibrate a system
verb
To carefully assess, set or adjust (something abstract).
The campaign's message was carefully calibrated to appeal to its target demographic.
Often appears as...
- calibrate a response
- calibrate a message
verb
To adjust a tool or device, so that it can work accurately.
Before starting the experiment, you need to calibrate the scale.
Often appears as...
- calibrate a device
- calibrate a machine
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To adjust, evaluate or set something in relation to a standard.
The therapist needs to calibrate the treatment plan as per the patient's progress.
Often appears as...
- calibrate a plan
- calibrate a system
verb
To carefully assess, set or adjust (something abstract).
The campaign's message was carefully calibrated to appeal to its target demographic.
Often appears as...
- calibrate a response
- calibrate a message
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Technical Precision
Used when precision matters, like in scientific measurements or fine adjustments in machinery.
You must calibrate the microscope before examining the samples.
Pro Tip 2/3Initial Setup
Often done when first setting up equipment to ensure accuracy from the start.
Please calibrate the 3D printer to these specifications.
Pro Tip 3/3Periodic Maintenance
Regular calibration is crucial to keep tools or devices performing reliably.
Calibrate the scales every six months for consistent weight measurements.
Pro Tip 1/3Technical Precision
Used when precision matters, like in scientific measurements or fine adjustments in machinery.
You must calibrate the microscope before examining the samples.
Pro Tip 2/3Initial Setup
Often done when first setting up equipment to ensure accuracy from the start.
Please calibrate the 3D printer to these specifications.
Pro Tip 3/3Periodic Maintenance
Regular calibration is crucial to keep tools or devices performing reliably.
Calibrate the scales every six months for consistent weight measurements.
Pro Tip 1/3Technical Precision
Used when precision matters, like in scientific measurements or fine adjustments in machinery.
You must calibrate the microscope before examining the samples.
Pro Tip 2/3Initial Setup
Often done when first setting up equipment to ensure accuracy from the start.
Please calibrate the 3D printer to these specifications.
Pro Tip 3/3Periodic Maintenance
Regular calibration is crucial to keep tools or devices performing reliably.
Calibrate the scales every six months for consistent weight measurements.
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Making sense of...
they become just like those headlamps and we can use them to calibrate the distance to the object we want to measure the distance to these objects very far away because because of the constant speed of light the further away we look the further into the universe's past we're looking the reason why we
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Samantha Power: Shaking...
is, fear is a bad advisor. We lunge towards the extremes when we aren't operating and trying to, again, calibrate our relationship to the world around us. Fourth and final he somehow, because he was working in all the world's worst places and all lesser evils, had a humility, of course,
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5 transformational...
of really picking on all these Sustainable Development Goals. Now, one example of how we calibrated this, here you have for Sustainable Development Goals on eradicating poverty, health, education and food. And here you have in the bubbles the seven regions of the world,
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Your elusive creative...
that's ever going to change but that said something kind of peculiar has happened recently in my life and in my career which has caused me to have to sort of recalibrate my whole relationship with this work and the peculiar thing is that I recently wrote
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Why doesn't everyone...
Various brain regions and multiple sensory systems perfectly calibrate our sense of balance and spatial orientation, helping pilots smoothly direct their flights. Slight movements of the arms allow operators to increase and decrease lift,
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Stacey Kramer: The best...
You will feel loved and appreciated like never before and reconnect with friends and acquaintances you haven't heard from in years. Adoration and admiration will overwhelm you. It will recalibrate what's most important in your life.
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Your elusive creative...
And I don't expect that that's ever going to change. But, that said, something kind of peculiar has happened recently in my life and in my career, which has caused me to have to recalibrate my whole relationship with this work.
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Project Aquatone's U-2...
RAY If you get up along the Canadian border, the ground controller questioned my altitude. Actually he was pretty accurate. And I said, no, you got to recalibrate your weapon. That's not the altitude we were at.
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Rattlesnake Tail in Slow...
animal doesn't need to be stressed out it's just like you know that he's around so what we're doing today we're stressing out no no no cuz I just got to calibrate which takes a second oh let's see how it
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How the world’s tallest...
Additionally, the Y-shaped layout was specifically calibrated to minimize local wind forces. Every several floors, one of the wings recedes slightly, forming a series of setbacks in a clockwise pattern.
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Making sense of...
they become just like those headlamps and we can use them to calibrate the distance to the object we want to measure the distance to these objects very far away because because of the constant speed of light the further away we look the further into the universe's past we're looking the reason why we
Video examples
Samantha Power: Shaking...
is, fear is a bad advisor. We lunge towards the extremes when we aren't operating and trying to, again, calibrate our relationship to the world around us. Fourth and final he somehow, because he was working in all the world's worst places and all lesser evils, had a humility, of course,
Video examples
5 transformational...
of really picking on all these Sustainable Development Goals. Now, one example of how we calibrated this, here you have for Sustainable Development Goals on eradicating poverty, health, education and food. And here you have in the bubbles the seven regions of the world,
Video examples
Your elusive creative...
that's ever going to change but that said something kind of peculiar has happened recently in my life and in my career which has caused me to have to sort of recalibrate my whole relationship with this work and the peculiar thing is that I recently wrote
Video examples
Why doesn't everyone...
Various brain regions and multiple sensory systems perfectly calibrate our sense of balance and spatial orientation, helping pilots smoothly direct their flights. Slight movements of the arms allow operators to increase and decrease lift,
Video examples
Stacey Kramer: The best...
You will feel loved and appreciated like never before and reconnect with friends and acquaintances you haven't heard from in years. Adoration and admiration will overwhelm you. It will recalibrate what's most important in your life.
Video examples
Your elusive creative...
And I don't expect that that's ever going to change. But, that said, something kind of peculiar has happened recently in my life and in my career, which has caused me to have to recalibrate my whole relationship with this work.
Video examples
Project Aquatone's U-2...
RAY If you get up along the Canadian border, the ground controller questioned my altitude. Actually he was pretty accurate. And I said, no, you got to recalibrate your weapon. That's not the altitude we were at.
Video examples
Rattlesnake Tail in Slow...
animal doesn't need to be stressed out it's just like you know that he's around so what we're doing today we're stressing out no no no cuz I just got to calibrate which takes a second oh let's see how it
Video examples
How the world’s tallest...
Additionally, the Y-shaped layout was specifically calibrated to minimize local wind forces. Every several floors, one of the wings recedes slightly, forming a series of setbacks in a clockwise pattern.
Example 1 of 10
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Rebecca Solnit
American Writer
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.
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Jon Huntsman, Jr.
American Politician
We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.
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Anna D. Shapiro
American Director
The conversation of how you do a play is my favorite conversation in the whole wide world: what a play is, why it's different than anything else, the math of the way that human behavior has to be calibrated theatrically versus anything else.
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Douglas Adams
English Writer
What the computer in virtual reality enables us to do is to recalibrate ourselves so that we can start seeing those pieces of information that are invisible to us but have become important for us to understand.
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Clive Owen
English Actor
If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.
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N. Chandrababu Naidu
Indian Politician
The entire world is talking about a leadership crisis in India. There is monumental corruption. Investigations into cases of corruption are politically calibrated.
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Karren Brady
British Public Servant
I'm proud to say that, leading by example, I've tried from day one to help recalibrate views of women in the world of football.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese Scientist
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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Goldie Hawn
American Actress
Meditation helps people balance and calibrate their left-right brain.
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Ian Lustick
American Historian
The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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Rebecca Solnit
American Writer
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.
Quote examples
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
American Politician
We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.
Quote examples
Anna D. Shapiro
American Director
The conversation of how you do a play is my favorite conversation in the whole wide world: what a play is, why it's different than anything else, the math of the way that human behavior has to be calibrated theatrically versus anything else.
Quote examples
Douglas Adams
English Writer
What the computer in virtual reality enables us to do is to recalibrate ourselves so that we can start seeing those pieces of information that are invisible to us but have become important for us to understand.
Quote examples
Clive Owen
English Actor
If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.
Quote examples
N. Chandrababu Naidu
Indian Politician
The entire world is talking about a leadership crisis in India. There is monumental corruption. Investigations into cases of corruption are politically calibrated.
Quote examples
Karren Brady
British Public Servant
I'm proud to say that, leading by example, I've tried from day one to help recalibrate views of women in the world of football.
Quote examples
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese Scientist
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
Quote examples
Goldie Hawn
American Actress
Meditation helps people balance and calibrate their left-right brain.
Quote examples
Ian Lustick
American Historian
The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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