calibrate

calibrate has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• v. i.. 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.
• v.. make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder"
• v.. measure the caliber of; "calibrate a gun"
• v.. 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"