calibrate

Verbs

  • (v) make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
    • calibrate an instrument
    • graduate a cylinder
    fine-tune, graduate,
  • (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
  • (v) measure the caliber of
    • calibrate a gun

Synonyms

fine-tune graduate

Words of close approximity

calibrated