CALIBRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calibration mean? 

• CALIBRATION (noun)
  The noun CALIBRATION has 1 sense:

1. the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument

  Familiarity information: CALIBRATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALIBRATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

calibration; standardisation; standardization

Context example:

the thermometer needed calibration

Hypernyms ("calibration" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "calibration"):

tuning ((music) calibrating something (an instrument or electronic circuit) to a standard frequency)

adjustment; readjustment; registration (the act of adjusting something to match a standard)

Derivation:

calibrate (make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring)

calibrate (mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units)

 Context examples 

Issue associated with the operation of the device, related to its accuracy, and associated with the calibration of the device.

(Medical Device Calibration Issue, Food and Drug Administration)

Issue associated with the failure of the device to perform a self-calibration procedure or process designed to assure the accuracy and proper performance of the device.

(Medical Device Failure to Calibrate, Food and Drug Administration/CDISC)

Last calibration date for the integrated dose meter or dose calculation.

(Last Calibration Date, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)

The date of the most recent calibration event for an instrument.

(Last Calibration Date, NCI Thesaurus)

Over the next few months, Juno's mission and science teams will perform final testing on the spacecraft's subsystems, final calibration of science instruments and some science collection.

(Juno Spacecraft in Orbit Around Mighty Jupiter, NASA)

However, additional measurements and calibration of the sensors are needed to determine the precise correlation between blood and sweat glucose levels using the device.

(Diagnosing cystic fibrosis with wearable devices, NIH)