calibration

calibration

English

Etymology

calibrate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /kælɪˈbɹeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

calibration (countable and uncountable, plural calibrations)

1. The act of calibrating something.

Derived terms

• autocalibration
• crosscalibration
• intercalibration
• miscalibration
• recalibration

 

Related terms

• calibre
• calibrate

Translations

act of calibrating

Arabic: معايرة‎ Bulgarian: калибро́вка f (kalibróvka) Catalan: calibratge m Chinese: Mandarin: 校準／校准 (zh) (jiàozhǔn), 校正 (zh) (jiàozhèng) Czech: kalibrace f Danish: kalibrering c Finnish: kalibrointi (fi) French: étalonnage (fr) m, calibrage (fr) m German: Kalibrierung f Greek: βαθμονόμηση (el) f (vathmonómisi), διαμέτρηση (el) f (diamétrisi), διακρίβωση (el) f (diakrívosi) Indonesian: kalibrasi (id) Italian: calibrazione Japanese: 較正 (ja) (こうせい, kōsei), キャリブレーション (kyariburēshon), 校正 (ja) (kōsei), 調整 (ja) (chousei) Macedonian: калибрација f (kalibracija) Norwegian: Bokmål: kalibrering m or f Nynorsk: kalibrering f Portuguese: calibração (pt) f Romanian: calibrare (ro) f, calibraj (ro) n Russian: калибро́вка (ru) f (kalibróvka), калиброва́ние (ru) n (kalibrovánije) Swedish: kalibrering (sv) c Turkish: kalibrasyon (tr), kalibraj (tr)

Further reading

• calibration in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• calibration in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911