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Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

English calibration

From calibrate + -ion.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkæl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌkæl.əˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/
• (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌkæl.əˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/
• (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌkæl.əˈbɹæɪ.ʃən/
• (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˌkɛl.əˈbɹæɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

calibration (countable and uncountable, plural calibrations)

1. (technology) The act of calibrating something.
   The thermostat needs calibration.

• autocalibration

• calibrationless

• crosscalibration

• intercalibration

• miscalibration

• overcalibration

• Platt calibration

• precalibration

• recalibration

• calibre

• calibrate

act of calibrating

• Arabic: معايرة

• Bulgarian: калибро́вка f (kalibróvka), калибриране (bg) n (kalibrirane)

• Catalan: calibratge m

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 校準 / 校准 (zh) (jiàozhǔn), 校正 (zh) (jiàozhèng)

• Czech: kalibrace f

• Danish: kalibrering c

• Finnish: kalibrointi (fi)

• French: étalonnage (fr) m, calibrage (fr) m

• German: Kalibrierung f

• Greek: βαθμονόμηση (el) f (vathmonómisi), διαμέτρηση (el) f (diamétrisi), διακρίβωση (el) f (diakrívosi)

• Indonesian: kalibrasi (id), penaraan

• Italian: calibrazione

• Japanese: 較正 (ja) (こうせい, kōsei), キャリブレーション (kyariburēshon), 校正 (ja) (kōsei), 調整 (ja) (chousei)

• Korean: 조정 (ko) (jojeong)

• Macedonian: калибрација f (kalibracija)

• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: kalibrering m or f
  Nynorsk: kalibrering f

• Portuguese: calibração (pt) f

• Romanian: calibrare (ro) f, calibraj (ro) n

• Russian: калибро́вка (ru) f (kalibróvka), калиброва́ние (ru) n (kalibrovánije)

• Spanish: calibración (es) f

• Swedish: kalibrering (sv) c

• Telugu: క్రమాంకనం (kramāṅkanaṁ)

• Turkish: kalibrasyon (tr), kalibraj (tr)

• “calibration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “calibration”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.