calibrate

From caliber or calibre +‎ -ate.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkælɪbɹeɪt/

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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.
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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• calibrate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

• 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