recalibrate

English

Alternative forms

• re-calibrate

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-der.

Old French re-bor.

Middle English re-

English re-

English calibre

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātuslbor.

English -ate

English calibrate

English recalibrate

From re- + calibrate.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɹiˈkæl.ə.bɹeɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

Verb

recalibrate (third-person singular simple present recalibrates, present participle recalibrating, simple past and past participle recalibrated)

1. To calibrate for a second or subsequent time.
   • 2016 February 7, Michael Barbaro, “Once Impervious, Marco Rubio Is Diminished by a Caustic Chris Christie”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Throughout the evening, Mr. Christie’s admonition about canned lines and rehearsed speeches hovered and seemed to recalibrate how the crowd — and television viewers — processed what Mr. Rubio said (and resaid, over and over).

Derived terms

• recalibratable
• recalibrator
• unrecalibrated

Translations

calibrate again

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重新校准 (zh)

• Finnish: kalibroida uudelleen
• French: recalibrer (fr)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: ricalibrare (it)
• Norman: èrcalibrer
• Polish: przekalibrowywać impf, przekalibrować pf
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

Spanish

Verb

recalibrate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of recalibrar combined with te