Look up: Calibration

1. calibration
   A process for translating the signals produced by a measuring instrument (such as a telescope) into something that is scientifically useful. This procedure removes most of the errors caused by environmental and instrumental instabilities.
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2. Calibration
   1) The activities involved in adjusting an instrument to be intrinsically accurate, either before or after launch (i.e., 'instrument calibration). 2) The process of collecting instrument characterization information (scale, offset, nonlinearity, operational, and environmental effects), using either ...
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3. Calibration
   The process of changing model parameters to obtain an improved fit of model output variables to data time traces.
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4. Calibration
   The act or process of comparing certain specific measurements in an instrument with a standard.
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5. calibration
   [n] - the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument
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6. Calibration
   Comparison and adjustment to a standard of known accuracy.
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7. Calibration
   (Digital cameras and photo printers) The reciprocal balancing or tuning of input and output devices to receive a matching value. In this way, the colours on a monitor can be matched with the printer`s colours. (Colour management)
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8. Calibration
   The procedure to force the scale to display a certain value for a known standard mass. Then any other mass will be determined using the standard as the reference.
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9. Calibration
   Load cell output comparison against standard test loads.
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10. Calibration
    When recording or analysing any signal it is necessary to calibrate the system with a known signal.Acoustic CalibratorA device which produces a known sound pressure on the microphone of a sound level measurement system, and is used to adjust the system to Standard specifications. The standard acoust...
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11. calibration
    Operation that, under specified conditions, in a first step establishes a relation between the quantity values with measurement uncertainties provided by measurement noun The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument.
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12. calibration
    Determination, by measurement or comparison with a standard, of the correct value of each scale reading on a meter or other measuring instrument; or determination of the settings of a control device that correspond to particular values of voltage, current, frequency or other output. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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13. calibration
    standardization noun the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument; `the thermometer needed calibration`
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14. calibration
    NOT SURE WHICH OF THESE (IF EITHER) IS RIGHT: 1. The estimation of some parameters of a model, under the assumption that the model is correct, as a middle step in the study of other parameters. Use of this word suggests that the investigator wishes to give those other parameters of the model a 'fair...
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