calibrate

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From caliber +‎ -ate.

Verb

calibrate (third-person singular simple present calibrates, present participle calibrating, simple past and past participle calibrated)

1. To check or adjust by comparison with a standard.
2. To mark the scale of a measuring instrument.
3. To measure the caliber of a tube or gun.

Related terms

• caliber/calibre
• calibration

Translations

to check or adjust by comparison with a standard

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 校準 (cmn), 校准 (cmn) (jiàozhǔn)

• Czech: kalibrovat (cs)
• Finnish: kalibroida (fi)
• French: étalonner (fr), calibrer (fr)
• German: kalibrieren (de)
• Greek: βαθμονομώ (el) (vathmonomó), διαβαθμίζω (el) (diavathmízo)

• Hebrew: כייל (he) (kiyél)
• Italian: calibrare (it)
• Japanese: 調整する (ja) (ちょうせいする, chōsei suru), 較正する (ja) (こうせいする, kōsei suru)
• Polish: kalibrować (pl)
• Portuguese: calibrar (pt)
• Russian: калибровать (ru) (kalibrírovatʹ)
• Spanish: calibrar (es)

External links

• calibrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• calibrate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• bacterial

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Italian

Verb

calibrate

1. second-person plural present indicative of calibrare
2. second-person plural imperative of calibrare
3. Feminine plural of calibrato