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Definition of Calibrating
1. calibrate [v] - See also: calibrate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calibrating
Literary usage of Calibrating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Electrical Measurements by Frank Arthur Laws (1917)
"Bams and Strouhal Method for calibrating a Slide Wire.— This method is a simple
application of the projection of potentials; the wire to be calibrated is ..."
2. Practical Electricity: A Laboratory and Lecture Course for First Year by William Edward Ayrton (1897)
"calibrating a Galvanometer by using Known Resistances and a Cell of Constant
EMF—There are four convenient methods of calibrating a galvanometer by using ..."
3. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for by Vladimir Karapetoff (1910)
"EXPERIMENT 3-A. —calibrating DC Ammeters with a Milli-Voltmeter and a Shunt.
— The method is explained in the preceding paragraph. ..."
4. Practical Electricity: A Laboratory and Lecture-course, for First Year by William Edward Ayrton (1891)
"calibrating a Gold-Leaf Electroscope.—If the ratio, r, say, that the sum of the
capacities of P and of the gold-leaves when M is placed in a fixed position ..."
5. 57 Ways to Protect Your Home Environment (& Yourself) by Rick Weinzierl (1999)
"calibrating liquid applicators Step 1. Mark off an area of 1000 square feet (20
feet by 50 feet, for instance). Step 2. Fill the spray canister or spray ..."
6. A Treatise on Light by Robert Alexander Houstoun (1915)
"Edser and Butler's Method of calibrating a Spectroscope. If a thin parallel-sided
film of air is enclosed between two plates of ..."
7. Technology Quarterly and Proceedings of the Society of Arts by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Society of Arts (1901)
"METHOD OF calibrating TURBIDIMETERS. BY GEORGE C. WHIPPLE AND DANIEL D. JACKSON.
THE Section of Bacteriology and Chemistry of the American Public Health ..."
8. Introductory Notes on Quantitative Chemical Analysis by Charles William Foulk (1910)
"General Method of calibrating. In finding the errors of a volumetric instrument
... Mercury is sometimes used as the calibrating liquid and has certain ..."
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