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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun calibration has 1 sense
- calibration(n = noun.act) standardisation, standardization - the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument; "the thermometer needed calibration" is a kind of activity
has particulars: tuning, adjustment, readjustment, registration
Derived forms verb calibrate1, verb calibrate2
CIDE DICTIONARY
calibration, n.
The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument. [1913 Webster]
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