Thesaurus results for CALIBRATED

calibrated

verb

past tense of calibrate

as in measured

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 calibrated One reason for this is that the heat index values are calibrated for shady locations with light wind. — Carmel Wroth, NPR, 2 July 2026 The clinical system is calibrated to the endpoint of disease. — Elizabeth Bevins, STAT, 16 June 2026 Yet, the district has not calibrated its facilities footprint to align with enrollment declines. — Joe Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026 The devices need to be properly calibrated and aligned to deliver reliable video evidence—and that’s not always easy. — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 June 2026 The short answer is that evolution runs on a clock calibrated to geological time, and human lifespans are vanishingly small ticks on that clock. — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 Goodman’s prose is clear rather than complex, and carefully calibrated to each of her characters; the book’s form corrals the natural speed of her sentences into act-length shapes that one moves around in one’s head like puzzle pieces. — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026 Whole-home diffusers, because they are calibrated by an HVAC technician at install, run on a more predictable replenishment cycle. — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 24 June 2026 Two people visiting the same platform at the same moment may see different prices, different bundles, different urgency signals calibrated to what the system has inferred about their willingness to pay. — François Candelon, Fortune, 12 June 2026

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Wildlife officials caught and euthanized two alligators in the area, which measured 12 feet and 13 feet.

— Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
General seating was under a beating sun, and the temperature of chairs was measured at 160 degrees.

— Dennis Romero, NBC news, 5 July 2026

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The approach uses the aspherical electron densities computed using quantum mechanics to arrive at accurate determinations of atomic positions.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 26 June 2026
During inference, large language models store computed token relationships in this cache rather than recalculating them with every output.

— David Noy, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

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