"calibrate" in the verb sense
1. calibrate, graduate, fine-tune
make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
"calibrate an instrument"
"graduate a cylinder"
2. calibrate
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"
3. calibrate
measure the caliber of
"calibrate a gun"
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