Thesaurus results for CALIBRATE

calibrate

verb

Definition of calibrate

as in to measure

to determine the correct value of (something) The age of the tree was calibrated from the carbon dating data.

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Recent Examples of calibrate The company calibrates screen uniformity at the factory and uses software compensation to maintain performance as the display ages. — Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026 Those instruments were calibrated for an institution that enrolled school graduates, taught them for three to five years, and handed them to a stable labor market. — Ann Kirschner, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 So all of these flooring materials and all of these counter materials are calibrated and specifically chosen to function as grip equipment for uplighting. — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026 Almost half of the Global Fortune 500 – including nearly four in five North American companies listed – are pursuing net-zero targets calibrated by the Protocol’s existing yardstick. — Mike Feibus, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for calibrate

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The minimum safe thickness is a threshold that measures a tank’s ability to contain the pressure of the liquid and support the tank’s weight, the report said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
These supernovas were used as a kind of cosmological measuring stick to uncover a mysterious force called dark energy that was causing the universe to expand — a discovery that earned the Nobel Prize in 2011.

— Joe Palca, NPR, 28 Aug. 2026

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The issue is that AI technology iterates extremely fast, causing related equipment and computing assets to depreciate rapidly, whereas financing debts are long term, creating a maturity mismatch risk.

— , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Later developments in complexity theory pointed in directions that seem even less related to computing.

— Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of compute

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As a result, organizations may struggle to monitor applications, track certification status and calculate available credits.

— Paul Toomey, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Land facing uphill and one spine engages; land facing downhill and the other does the job without the need for a pilot to calculate the perfect approach angle.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Sep. 2026

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