CALIBRATE

• (verb) make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring

  "calibrate an instrument", "graduate a cylinder"

  synonyms : fine-tune , graduate

• (verb) measure the caliber of

  "calibrate a gun"

• (verb) 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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