How to Use calibration in a Sentence

calibration

noun
  • The best calibration is subjective; different actors have different risk appetites.
    Anthea Roberts, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The belt worked, but the screen was slow and the calibration was off.
    Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate, The Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2019
  • And all those calibrations trace back to right here, in the bowels of NIST.
    Brian Resnick, Vox, 15 Nov. 2018
  • This helps with the calibration process, making sure there aren’t too many hard words in a row.
    Saira Mueller, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Check the drone's calibration, GPS and set your take-off and return point.
    Chase Brush, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2021
  • And that produces just the kinds of abuse that the Framers’ careful calibration was meant to prevent.
    Sherif Girgis, National Review, 5 Dec. 2019
  • One of the first things to do as part of a re-calibration of your business is to make a list of everything that has gone well in the last 12 months.
    Catherine Erdly, Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • And there's a ton of calibration required for the new hardware.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 5 Feb. 2023
  • And the calibration to get the laser to hit all the fixtures accurately?
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 May 2023
  • And the calibration to get the laser to hit all the fixtures accurately?
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The calibration screen, meanwhile, will load fastest when a cellphone hot spot is in use or a router is in close range.
    Lesley O'Toole, Variety, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Then there's the inevitable re-calibration that any store goes through once the doors open when receipts say what sells and what doesn't.
    Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • This is just a spring with some calibration markings on it.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Then begins five months of calibration and alignment in getting the Webb telescope ready to go to work.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The real calibration tool will take around 15 minutes, from what I was told.
    Chris Welch, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Dozens of variables are weighed when an automaker sets the base calibration for a car’s brakes.
    Russ Mitchell, latimes.com, 30 May 2018
  • On the rover's deck is a symbol-laden calibration target for Mastcam-Z, or the rover's pair of zoomable cameras.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The band continues to balance sharp smarts with a sonic hint of slacker slouch and just the right calibration on sneer.
    John Adamian, courant.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Their bench unit has yet to find its ideal calibration.
    Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • It’s a hypercar, and thus taut even in the softest calibration.
    Mark Ewing, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022
  • This will ensure that all of the purse’s weight gets measured and will circumvent any calibration issues with the scale.
    Jamie Ducharme, Time, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Four people work at the fenced installation all the time, but about 10 folks are there when calibration starts.
    Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 June 2017
  • The grids of zigzagging white lines seen in two of the images — the strangest of the various desert structures — are spy satellite calibration targets.
    Fox News, 17 Nov. 2011
  • Race keeps all the nannies but at their most relaxed calibration.
    Steven Cole Smith, Car and Driver, 21 May 2021
  • Sadler notes that the DIY calibration approach only goes so far.
    Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2021
  • As of late, the calibration pipeline has no feature for removing the spikes.
    Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Far from obvious, this requires calibration of that risk and of the cost of reducing it.
    Paul Swartz, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Use your favorite search engine (Google?) to look for torque wrench calibration.
    Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2018
  • There’s no calibration needed, so this stud finder will always be ready to do its job.
    Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Rylance, who only saw the film for the first time the night before this interview, is still working through that calibration.
    Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2022

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