calibration

English

Etymology

calibrate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /kælɪˈbɹeɪʃən/
Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

calibration (countable and uncountable, plural calibrations)

The act of calibrating something.

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Translations

act of calibrating

Bulgarian: калибро́вка f (kalibróvka)
Catalan: calibratge m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 校準 (zh), 校准 (zh) (jiàozhǔn), 校正 (zh) (jiàozhèng)
Czech: kalibrace f
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)

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)
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

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.

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