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Recent Examples of calibration
The sensor provided smooth, accurate tracking on multiple surfaces without requiring manual calibration.
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Sascha Brodsky, PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2025
It's used in small amounts for calibration of radiation-detection equipment.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
To resolve the problem, district officials adjusted the calibration of the machines and increased the training of security staff to remind students to take out metal objects from their bookbags.
—Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2025
Traditional telescopes such as the Hubble or James Webb use two pieces of glass that require extremely precise calibration to function, which can lead to painfully expensive and complex fixes.
—Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2025
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Sascha Brodsky, PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2025
It's used in small amounts for calibration of radiation-detection equipment.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
To resolve the problem, district officials adjusted the calibration of the machines and increased the training of security staff to remind students to take out metal objects from their bookbags.
—Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2025
Traditional telescopes such as the Hubble or James Webb use two pieces of glass that require extremely precise calibration to function, which can lead to painfully expensive and complex fixes.
—Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calibration
measurement
Noun
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The large acceptance of CLAS12 allowed for a comprehensive measurement across the entire resonance region in a single experiment.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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Some scholars countered that Venusian volcanoes could have produced phosphine; others said that the measurements were dubious, and the mystery gas wasn’t phosphine.—
David W. Brown,
New Yorker,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Calibration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calibration. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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