calibration : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: calibration	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for calibration
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
calibration n the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument; "the thermometer needed calibration" Synonym(s): calibration, standardization, standardisation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Calibration \Cal`ibra"*tion\, n. The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument.