calibration

English

Etymology

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

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English -ion

English calibration

From calibrate + -ion. First attested in 1852.

Pronunciation

• enPR: (weak vowel distinction) kăl′ĭ-brā′shən, (weak vowel merger) kăl′ə-brā′shən
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkæl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌkæl.əˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌkæl.əˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/

  • Audio (Texas):

    (file)

• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˌkæl.əˈbɹæɪ.ʃən/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌkɛl.əˈbɹæɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: cal‧i‧bra‧tion

Noun

calibration (countable and uncountable, plural calibrations)

1. (technology) The act of calibrating something.

   The thermostat needs calibration.

Derived terms

• autocalibration
• calibrationless
• crosscalibration
• intercalibration
• miscalibration
• overcalibration
• Platt calibration
• precalibration
• recalibration

Related terms

• caliber / calibre
• calibrate

Translations

act of calibrating

• Arabic: معايرة
• Bulgarian: калибро́вка f (kalibróvka), калибриране (bg) n (kalibrirane)
• Catalan: calibratge m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 校準 / 校准 (zh) (jiàozhǔn), 校正 (zh) (jiàozhèng)

• Czech: kalibrace f
• Danish: kalibrering c
• Finnish: kalibrointi (fi)
• French: étalonnage (fr) m, étalonnement (fr) m, calibrage (fr) m
• German: Kalibrierung f, Kalibration f
• Greek: βαθμονόμηση (el) f (vathmonómisi), διαμέτρηση (el) f (diamétrisi), διακρίβωση (el) f (diakrívosi)
• Indonesian: kalibrasi (id), penaraan
• Italian: calibrazione
• Japanese: 較正 (ja) (こうせい, kōsei), キャリブレーション (kyariburēshon), 校正 (ja) (kōsei), 調整 (ja) (chousei)
• Korean: 조정 (ko) (jojeong)
• Macedonian: калибрација f (kalibracija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kalibrering m or f

  Nynorsk: kalibrering f

• Polish: kalibracja f
• Portuguese: calibração (pt) f
• Romanian: calibrare (ro) f, calibraj (ro) n
• Russian: калибро́вка (ru) f (kalibróvka), калиброва́ние (ru) n (kalibrovánije)
• Spanish: calibración (es) f
• Swedish: kalibrering (sv) c
• Telugu: క్రమాంకనం (kramāṅkanaṁ)
• Turkish: kalibrasyon (tr), kalibraj (tr)

Further reading

• “calibration”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “calibration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “calibration”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

French

Etymology

From calibrer +‎ -ation. Calque of English calibration.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.li.bʁa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)); [ka.l̪i.bʁa.sjɔ̃]:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔ̃
• Hyphenation: ca‧li‧bra‧tion

Noun

calibration f (countable and uncountable, plural calibrations)

1. (frequent in sciences) synonym of étalonnage (calibration) (act of calibrating)

Anagrams

• câliboirant