calibration Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument
    standardisation; standardization.
    • the thermometer needed calibration

WordNet


Cal`ibra"*tion noun
Definitions
  1. The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument.

Webster 1913