calibrate

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

verb

1. make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring (Freq. 4)
- calibrate an instrument
- graduate a cylinder
• Syn:
graduate, fine-tune
• Derivationally related forms:
graduation (for: graduate), graduate (for: graduate), calibration
• Hypernyms:
adjust, set, correct
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units
- he calibrated the thermometer for the Celsius scale
• Derivationally related forms:
calibration
• Hypernyms:
tag, label, mark
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. measure the caliber of
- calibrate a gun
• Derivationally related forms:
caliber
• Hypernyms:
measure, mensurate, measure out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  graduate, fine-tune