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# calibrated

verb, past form of calibrate (calibrate, calibrates, calibrated, calibrating); adjective (calibrated)

«calibrated» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (science) Checked and adjusted so that it measures exactly right. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calibrated/#m1)
2. Marked with a scale of numbers for measuring: a calibrated cylinder. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calibrated/#m2)
3. Carefully planned or adjusted for a purpose: a carefully calibrated answer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calibrated/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science lessons, measuring cylinders, thermometers and scales are calibrated. Before an experiment, you check that a balance reads 0 when empty. In everyday life, a calibrated oven or tyre gauge gives correct numbers.

### Examples

- The thermometer was calibrated in ice water at 0 °C. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calibrated/#x1)
- Use a calibrated measuring cylinder to measure 50 ml. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calibrated/#x2)
- The scales were calibrated before the weigh-in. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calibrated/#x3)
- The engineers calibrated the sensors on the robot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calibrated/#x4)
- Her words were carefully calibrated not to upset anyone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calibrated/#x5)

### Note

Noun: calibration. Maths and science: a badly calibrated scale that reads 2 g too heavy will make every reading 2 g too much, so you subtract 2.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «calibrated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calibrated/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«calibrated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/calibrated.html) on Mova free.