How to Use calibration in a Sentence

calibration

noun
  • The belt worked, but the screen was slow and the calibration was off.
    — Christopher Elliott, courant.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The belt worked, but the screen was slow and the calibration was off.
    — Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate, The Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The belt worked, but the screen was slow and the calibration was off.
    — Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate, The Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The belt worked, but the screen was slow and the calibration was off.
    — Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate, The Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The belt worked, but the screen was slow and the calibration was off.
    — Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate, The Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2019
  • And all those calibrations trace back to right here, in the bowels of NIST.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 15 Nov. 2018
  • This helps with the calibration process, making sure there aren’t too many hard words in a row.
    — Saira Mueller, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Check the drone's calibration, GPS and set your take-off and return point.
    — Chase Brush, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2021
  • And that produces just the kinds of abuse that the Framers’ careful calibration was meant to prevent.
    — Sherif Girgis, National Review, 5 Dec. 2019
  • One of the first things to do as part of a re-calibration of your business is to make a list of everything that has gone well in the last 12 months.
    — Catherine Erdly, Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • And there's a ton of calibration required for the new hardware.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 5 Feb. 2023
  • And the calibration to get the laser to hit all the fixtures accurately?
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 May 2023
  • And the calibration to get the laser to hit all the fixtures accurately?
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The calibration screen, meanwhile, will load fastest when a cellphone hot spot is in use or a router is in close range.
    — Lesley O'Toole, Variety, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Then there's the inevitable re-calibration that any store goes through once the doors open when receipts say what sells and what doesn't.
    — Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • This is just a spring with some calibration markings on it.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The calibration of the scales was confirmed and witnessed by the competitor.
    — Yara Elshebiny, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • The calibration runs on its own and only takes a few seconds to drive each motor.
    — PCMAG, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Then begins five months of calibration and alignment in getting the Webb telescope ready to go to work.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The real calibration tool will take around 15 minutes, from what I was told.
    — Chris Welch, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Our whole partnership on the movie explored that calibration, the red light green light element, the smile, the look in his eye, and how much there was.
    — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Dozens of variables are weighed when an automaker sets the base calibration for a car’s brakes.
    — Russ Mitchell, latimes.com, 30 May 2018
  • On the rover's deck is a symbol-laden calibration target for Mastcam-Z, or the rover's pair of zoomable cameras.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The band continues to balance sharp smarts with a sonic hint of slacker slouch and just the right calibration on sneer.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Their bench unit has yet to find its ideal calibration.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • It’s a hypercar, and thus taut even in the softest calibration.
    — Mark Ewing, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022
  • This will ensure that all of the purse’s weight gets measured and will circumvent any calibration issues with the scale.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Four people work at the fenced installation all the time, but about 10 folks are there when calibration starts.
    — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 June 2017
  • There's also the question of standardization and calibration across diverse equipment types.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The plant is in calibration mode, but Frisk expects Reju to start making deliveries next year so that customers can start integrating the material into their supply chains.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Oct. 2024

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