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English
Etymology
calibrate + -ion
Pronunciation
Noun
calibration (countable and uncountable, plural calibrations)
- The act of calibrating something.
The thermostat needs calibration
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
act of calibrating
- Arabic: معايرة
- Bulgarian: калибро́вка f (kalibróvka)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- Turkish: kalibrasyon (tr), kalibraj (tr)
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Further reading
- “calibration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “calibration”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.