How to Use calibration in a Sentence

calibration

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  • This helps with the calibration process, making sure there aren’t too many hard words in a row.
    — Saira Mueller, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
  • One of the first things to do as part of a re-calibration of your business is to make a list of everything that has gone well in the last 12 months.
    — Catherine Erdly, Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • And there's a ton of calibration required for the new hardware.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 5 Feb. 2023
  • And the calibration to get the laser to hit all the fixtures accurately?
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
  • This is just a spring with some calibration markings on it.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Then begins five months of calibration and alignment in getting the Webb telescope ready to go to work.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The real calibration tool will take around 15 minutes, from what I was told.
    — Chris Welch, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Their bench unit has yet to find its ideal calibration.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • It’s a hypercar, and thus taut even in the softest calibration.
    — Mark Ewing, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Race keeps all the nannies but at their most relaxed calibration.
    — Steven Cole Smith, Car and Driver, 21 May 2021
  • Sadler notes that the DIY calibration approach only goes so far.
    — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2021
  • As of late, the calibration pipeline has no feature for removing the spikes.
    — Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Far from obvious, this requires calibration of that risk and of the cost of reducing it.
    — Paul Swartz, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2022
  • There’s no calibration needed, so this stud finder will always be ready to do its job.
    — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Rylance, who only saw the film for the first time the night before this interview, is still working through that calibration.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2022
  • But Spears, with his minute calibrations of feyness and fierceness, holds the whole thing together.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • So all of that — the calibration, the balance were definitely tricky.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Currently the spacecraft is in its cruise phase, which allows for calibration of some of the 10 instruments aboard.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 May 2021
  • The feature includes calibration and a launchpad of eye targets for use with the device, for actions like left-click, scroll, Start menu, and Settings.
    — Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 7 June 2022
  • The answer lies in the subtlest of calibrations, but in general the direction leans too heavily on the book.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Perhaps the coolest new feature is the Apple TV 4K’s color calibration mode.
    — Dave Johnson, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • The suspension calibration needed an OTA tweak to account for the unsprung weight of the all-terrain tire package.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Note that each person with a profile will need to perform this calibration process to see the Form Assist during classes.
    — Angela Moscaritolo, PCMAG, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Our promotion is then a calibration with a committee that’s made up of a lot of different people who don’t all look the same.
    — Dan Reilly, Fortune, 9 June 2022
  • The latest update to the Apple TV includes a robust new calibration feature to save you time and money.
    — Patrick Lucas Austin, Time, 23 July 2021
  • Compare the same target — seen by Spitzer & in Webb’s calibration images.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 10 May 2022
  • Sporting a new shift lever and calibration, the manual gear change is crisp and intuitive.
    — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The device requires no user specific calibration, and therefore can be used right out of the box.
    — Charlie Fink, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The screen is there to set the follow mode, give balance an assist with a quick motor calibration, and adjust other settings.
    — PCMAG, 10 Jan. 2023
  • This can be done by using the calibration wheel under the scale if the pointer isn’t exactly aligned with the zero mark upon opening.
    — Casey Clark, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2023

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