calibrate

1. 1.

   make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring

   “calibrate an instrument”

   “graduate a cylinder”

   Synonymsgraduatefine-tune

   Broaderadjust
2. 2.

   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”

   Broadertag
3. 3.

   measure the caliber of

   “calibrate a gun”

   Broadermeasure

Other forms of calibrate

past tense

calibrated·

present participle

calibrating·

third person

calibrates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about calibrate

What does calibrate mean?

calibrate means "make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in calibrate?

calibrate has 3 syllables: cal-i-brate. The stress falls on "cal". In IPA it is /ˈkæləˌbɹeɪt/.

What is another word for calibrate?

Close synonyms include graduate, fine-tune. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calibrate a common word?

calibrate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with calibrate?

2 words rhyme with calibrate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.