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• v  make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
  calibrate an instrument
• v  mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units
  he calibrated the thermometer for the Celsius scale
• v  measure the caliber of
  calibrate a gun

• What defines borderline personality disorder and makes it so explosive is the sufferers' inability to calibrate their feelings and behavior.
• Its stylus, like a Palm's, must be calibrated, and when pinpoint accuracy on the drawing board came into question, I would calibrate it again just to be on the safe side.
• Serious runners should calibrate it to their stride.

• graduate
• fine-tune

News & Articles

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• Stocks Rally As Wall Street Braces Itself For Bernanke; Activists Target Sony And Dell
  Ahead of the Fed's potentially game-changing decision, U.S. stocks delivered another solid rally on Tuesday, with the Dow clocking in its sixth consecutive triple digit move.  As investors calibrate their expectations that Bernanke will taper his program of quantitative easing, activists stole the headlines, as Carl Icahn upped his bet on Dell and Dan Loeb increased his stake in Sony.
  June 18, 2013 - Forbes
• Mike Hashimoto: Be sure to read all of Scalia decision overturning Arizona law
  It has to be a slightly disconcerting day for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's usual cast of knee-jerk critics - the ones who calibrate their reaction to rulings by which side he's on.
  June 17, 2013 - Dallas Morning News

Quotes

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• Manmohan Singh in BusinessWeek
  The challenge of the Toronto summit will be to ensure that global economic recovery is durable, balanced and sustainable and to calibrate exit strategies in the light of growing concerns over expansionary fiscal policies,Singh said in a...
• Christian Noyer in Moneycontrol.com
  The challenge is to calibrate and phase in the new framework in a way that does not impede the recovery and does not contradict our macroeconomic objectives,Noyer told the Europlace Financial Forum in Paris. "If the rebalancing happens too...
• John Godfrey in FOXNews
  Godfrey said Libya, like other OPEC nations is "having to re-calibrate their national budget" and one key issue is how to best maximize the returns from their energy resources.