make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
Calibrate an instrument. Graduate a cylinder.
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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.
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measure the caliber of
Calibrate a gun.
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To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.
