The telephone time-of-day service also is used to synchronize clocks and watches, and for the calibration of stopwatches and timers (although slightly less accurate than radio reception).
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Calibration
//ˌkæl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən//
Synonyms for "calibration" (4 found)
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Noun(2 words)
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36 translations across 24 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- معايرة noun (act of calibrating)
Bulgarian
2 entries- калибриране noun (act of calibrating)
- калибро́вка noun (act of calibrating)
Catalan
1 entries- calibratge noun (act of calibrating)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 校正 noun (act of calibrating)
- 校準 /校准 noun (act of calibrating)
Czech
1 entries- kalibrace noun (act of calibrating)
Danish
1 entries- kalibrering noun (act of calibrating)
Finnish
1 entries- kalibrointi noun (act of calibrating)
French
2 entries- calibrage noun (act of calibrating)
- étalonnage noun (act of calibrating)
German
1 entries- Kalibrierung noun (act of calibrating)
Greek
3 entries- βαθμονόμηση noun (act of calibrating)
- διακρίβωση noun (act of calibrating)
- διαμέτρηση noun (act of calibrating)
Indonesian
2 entries- kalibrasi noun (act of calibrating)
- penaraan noun (act of calibrating)
Italian
1 entries- calibrazione noun (act of calibrating)
Japanese
4 entries- キャリブレーション noun (act of calibrating)
- 校正 noun (act of calibrating)
- 調整 noun (act of calibrating)
- 較正 noun (act of calibrating)
Korean
1 entries- 조정 noun (act of calibrating)
Macedonian
1 entries- калибрација noun (act of calibrating)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kalibrering noun (act of calibrating)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kalibrering noun (act of calibrating)
Portuguese
1 entries- calibração noun (act of calibrating)
Romanian
2 entries- calibraj noun (act of calibrating)
- calibrare noun (act of calibrating)
Russian
2 entries- калибро́вка noun (act of calibrating)
- калиброва́ние noun (act of calibrating)
Spanish
1 entries- calibración noun (act of calibrating)
Swedish
1 entries- kalibrering noun (act of calibrating)
Telugu
1 entries- క్రమాంకనం noun (act of calibrating)
Turkish
2 entries- kalibraj noun (act of calibrating)
- kalibrasyon noun (act of calibrating)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
The thermostat needs calibration.
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