Fromcaliber orcalibre +-ate.
calibrate (third-person singular simple presentcalibrates,present participlecalibrating,simple past and past participlecalibrated)
- Tocheck oradjust bycomparison with astandard.
2024 September 7, David Hytner, “Rice and Grealish start new England era with Nations League victory in Ireland”, inThe Guardian[1]:Trent Alexander-Arnold was prominent in the early running, stepping up from right-back into midfield,calibrating his passing range. He had already teed upHarry Kane for a free header – the captain headed high – when he sentAnthony Gordon clean through.
- Tomark thescale of a measuringinstrument.
- Tomeasure thecaliber of atube orgun.
- (check or adjust by comparison with a standard):tune
to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
To mark the scale of a measuring instrument
- “calibrate”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “calibrate”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
calibrate
- inflection ofcalibrare:
- second-personpluralpresentindicative
- second-personpluralimperative
calibrate f pl
- feminineplural ofcalibrato
calibrate
- second-personsingular voseoimperative ofcalibrar combined withte
