If you calibrate an instrument or tool, you mark or adjust it so that you can use it to measure something accurately.
例句
...instructions on how to calibrate a thermometer.如何標定溫度計的說明...a calibrated hypodermic syringe.標定精確刻度的皮下注射器
VERB
精確測量;準確估量
If you calibrate something, you measure it accurately.
例句
...a way of calibrating the shift of opinion within the Labour Party...準確衡量工黨內部觀點轉變的方法Pesticide levels in food are simply too difficult to calibrate.食品中殺蟲劑的含量很難精確測定。
英漢詞典釋義
n.
調準;校準
calibration by measurement由量度校準calibration by water用水校準absolute calibration絕對校準
(測量器具上的)刻度
the calibrations on a pressure gauge.氣壓計上的刻度
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument;