calibrate

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• kăl′ĭ-brāt weak vowel distinction
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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkæl.ɪ.bɹeɪ̯t/
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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, also: /ˈkal.ɪ.bɹeɪ̯t/
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• Australian: /ˈkæl.ɪ.bɹæɪ̯t/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈkɛl.ə.bɹæɪ̯t/
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• Scotland: /ˈkal.ɪ.bɹet/
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• India: /ˈka(ː)l.ɪ.bɾeːʈ/
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• rhymes with -eɪt
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• rhymes with (weak vowel distinction) -ælɪbɹeɪt
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• rhymes with (weak vowel merger) -æləbɹeɪt
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• CMU ARPABET: K AE1 L AH0 B R EY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree English calibre Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English calibrate From calibre + -ate.

40 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: калибрирам (kalibriram) — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Catalan: calibrar — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Chinese Mandarin: 校準 /校准 (jiàozhǔn) — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Chinese Mandarin: 標定 /标定 (biāodìng) — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Czech: kalibrovat — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Esperanto: kalibri — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Finnish: kalibroida — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• French: étalonner — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• French: calibrer — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• German: kalibrieren — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Greek: βαθμονομώ (vathmonomó) — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Greek: διαβαθμίζω (diavathmízo) — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Hebrew: כייל (kiyél) — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Italian: calibràre — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Japanese: 調整する (chōsei suru) — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Japanese: 較正する (kōsei suru) — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Māori: tohuine — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Māori: tōkarikari — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Polish: kalibrować — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Polish: skalibrować — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Portuguese: calibrar — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Russian: калибри́ровать (kalibrírovatʹ) — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Slovak: kalibrovať — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Spanish: calibrar — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Swedish: kalibrera — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Ukrainian: калібрува́ти (kalibruváty) — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Ukrainian: відкалібро́вувати (vidkalibróvuvaty) — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Ukrainian: відкалібрува́ти (vidkalibruváty) — to check or adjust by comparison with a standard
• Bulgarian: градуирам (graduiram) — to mark the scale of a measuring instrument
• Chinese Mandarin: 標記刻度 /标记刻度 (biāojì kèdù) — to mark the scale of a measuring instrument
• Chinese Mandarin: 標定 /标定 (biāodìng) — to mark the scale of a measuring instrument
• Dutch: kalibreer — to mark the scale of a measuring instrument
• Finnish: kalibroida — to mark the scale of a measuring instrument
• Polish: kalibrować — to mark the scale of a measuring instrument
• Polish: skalibrować — to mark the scale of a measuring instrument
• Chinese Mandarin: 測量 /测量 (cèliáng) — to measure the caliber of a tube or gun
• Chinese Mandarin: 標定 /标定 (biāodìng) — to measure the caliber of a tube or gun
• Finnish: kalibroida — to measure the caliber of a tube or gun
• Polish: kalibrować — to measure the caliber of a tube or gun
• Polish: skalibrować — to measure the caliber of a tube or gun