Thesaurus results for CALIBRATING

calibrating

verb

present participle of calibrate

as in measuring

to determine the correct value of (something) The age of the tree was calibrated from the carbon dating data.

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Recent Examples of calibrating Mining company 3 Proton Lithium (3PL) wants to develop the site, but around a third of it is located in lands reserved for NASA to use for calibrating Earth-observing satellites. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2026 The entire system has been designed to be easy to use, from calibrating the G1X for the first time to creating models to filling ink to swapping print beds. — New Atlas, 27 July 2026 Over the course of the fifties, Bobby perfected his performance of power, calibrating and re-calibrating to fit his family’s political aims. — Literary Hub, 17 July 2026 Within the existing parking garage, the airport has installed and is calibrating a parking guidance system that directs drivers to available spaces using digital arrows mounted on the ceiling. — Sacbee.com, 22 June 2026 Investors who treat this as a passing diet fad are calibrating to a baseline that no longer exists. — Tenzin Seldon, Fortune, 21 June 2026 Engineers would spend months testing and calibrating prototypes in proving grounds and on real-world roads. — IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2026 The process preserved the original film grain and cinematic texture while calibrating brightness, contrast and color saturation for stability and clarity. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 June 2026 Instead of independently designing and optimizing individual components and then connecting and calibrating them, GM can now simultaneously balance airflow and refrigerant behavior with cabin comfort, doing in days or hours what used to take months or weeks. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026

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The site, measuring close to 140,000 square feet, includes some 100 rooms connected by a network of tunnels more than a half-mile long.

— Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Major uncertainties remain in interpreting the results from these experiments, but researchers’ best estimates suggest that each site is measuring a different flux.

— James Dinneen, Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026

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McGurn said Truth Social is in conversations to sign up cloud computing companies, large news organizations, and developers of large language models.

— Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026
Shares of cloud computing company CoreWeave surged more than 18% and Super Micro Computer’s stock jumped nearly 9% before the market opened on strong quarterly results.

— Elaine Kurtenbach, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026

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