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calibrates

 
Verb calibrate has 3 senses
  1. calibrate, graduate, fine-tune - make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder"
    --1 is one way to adjust, set, correct
    Derived form: noun calibration1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  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"
    --2 is one way to
    tag, label, mark
    Derived form: noun calibration1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. calibrate - measure the caliber of; "calibrate a gun"
    --3 is one way to
    measure, mensurate, measure out
    Derived form: noun caliber2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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