calibrate

From caliber or calibre +‎ -ate.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.ɪ.bɹeɪt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.ə.bɹeɪt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.ə.bɹæɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

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.
   • 2024 September 7, David Hytner, “Rice and Grealish start new England era with Nations League victory in Ireland”, in The 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 up Harry Kane for a free header – the captain headed high – when he sent Anthony Gordon clean through.

2. To mark the scale of a measuring instrument.
3. To measure the caliber of a tube or gun.

• (check or adjust by comparison with a standard): tune

• caliber/calibre
• calibration

• “calibrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “calibrate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• bacterial

calibrate

1. inflection of calibrare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

calibrate f pl

1. feminine plural of calibrato

calibrate

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