CALIBRATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calibrated mean? 

• CALIBRATED (adjective)
  The adjective CALIBRATED has 1 sense:

1. marked with or divided into degrees

  Familiarity information: CALIBRATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALIBRATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked with or divided into degrees

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Synonyms:

calibrated; graduated

Context example:

a calibrated thermometer

Participle:

calibrate (mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units)

 Context examples 

A calibrated dental instrument used to measure periodontal pocket depth and/or clinical attachment level at various locations around the teeth.

(Periodontal Probe, NCI Thesaurus)

IMERG data are calibrated using Microwave Imager (GMI) and Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) data received by the GPM core observatory satellite.

(France's Flooding Rains Examined by NASA’s IMERG, NASA)

The atlas takes advantage of low-light imaging now available from the NOAA/NASA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite, calibrated by thousands of ground observations.

(Milky Way now hidden from a third of humanity, NOAA)

Lopez Garcia said, After analyzing many more samples than in previous works, with adequate controls so as not to contaminate them and a well-calibrated methodology, we have verified that there’s no microbial life in these salty, hot and hyperacid pools or in the adjacent magnesium-rich brine lakes.

(Place discovered on earth with no microbial life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A bottle that has a device specifically intended for the application of a liquid in a drop by drop manner, or a device intended for the delivery of an exact dose (e.g., calibrated dropper for oral medications).

(Dropper Bottle, NCI Thesaurus)