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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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
calibration
n : the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a
standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument; "the
thermometer needed calibration" [syn: {standardization},
{standardisation}]
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