calibrate, graduate, fine-tune
(verb) make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; “calibrate an instrument”; “graduate a cylinder”
calibrate
(verb) measure the caliber of; “calibrate a gun”
calibrate
(verb) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
calibrate (third-person singular simple present calibrates, present participle calibrating, simple past and past participle calibrated)
To check or adjust by comparison with a standard.
To mark the scale of a measuring instrument.
To measure the caliber of a tube or gun.
• (check or adjust by comparison with a standard): tune
• bacterial
Source: Wiktionary
Cal"i*brate, v. i.
Definition: To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 June 2025
(adverb) in a dispirited manner without hope; “the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
