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calibrated
adjective as in graduated
Strong matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Mission control will now spend several weeks testing and calibrating the instruments before the rover begins to explore Jezero in earnest this summer.
Culture tinkers with and calibrates the machinery of our minds.
Because if you put your mind on a finish line, and the finish line is going to happen within two months, you’re going to calibrate for that final sprint.
The light emitted enters the eyes and stimulates the retina, activating the hippocampus and calibrating the body’s clock to daytime.
Hope also requires that we learn to use this data to effectively calibrate progress—no matter how small.
The former is an exquisitely calibrated product of American liberalism, ever attentive to such notions as “inclusiveness.”
We have basically over-calibrated in our reaction to germs—our aversion to them has created a new vulnerability.
Aronofsky's extrapolations are cleverly calibrated to "answer" all the questions left unanswered in the original story.
And what do you get when monetary growth is not calibrated to underlying growth in the real economy?
It was a finely calibrated performance with great attention to detail.
His eyes were still on the needles that kept creeping higher and higher along the calibrated periphery of the meters.
A small aluminium sphere was arranged to blow out at the end of a light cord exerting tension on a calibrated spring.
Inside, her occupants grimaced helplessly as they watched various instruments guide tiny pointers across calibrated faces.
A thermometer should not be calibrated until some weeks after making, as the glass bulb tends to contract.
On Tuesday morning the weather was too thick to permit of the ships being swung and her compasses calibrated.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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