The word 'calibration' is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used as a noun to refer to the act of making adjustments to a measuring device to ensure accuracy. For example: "We need to carry out regular calibrations of the machine to ensure that the readings are accurate".
Weng Hong Tang (forthcoming) objects to the calibration approach on the grounds that a credence-forming process can be well-calibrated even though that process is insensitive to relevant evidence.
Foundation director of DADA, Ayodele Arigbabu, described the collection and other similar video and visual art work (in an email): "Far more than aesthetic indulgence, these renditions are a calibration of the changes deemed necessary in today's political, technical and cultural infrastructure".
"As a consequence, the EU provides the main ongoing forum for calibration of policy.
Nonetheless, he concludes that from both calibration exercises and historical literature, the spillover effect was net negative.
The scanner is fitted with calibration rods made of a proprietary material whose properties provide reference points for the creation of an image.
The hybrid does not, in the jargon, breed true.In this section The calibration of destruction Shelling out Frog preserves Flame wars ReprintsIf new hybrids were easy to generate in quantity, that would not matter.
Failure to make the calibration puts the continuity of the data series at risk, making climate models based on those data less reliable.The White House is now banging heads together, but it all takes time that the project does not have.
The readouts from the hand's sensors were processed by a computer, which then fed tiny jolts of electricity into the electrodes.After a bit of calibration, Mr Sorensen reported feeling a sensation of touch in the thumb, index finger and little finger of his newly installed hand.
The whole thing is then popped into the mother-to-be's vagina, where fertilisation and early embryonic development take place.The IVF incubators in which this normally happens are expensive and complex electromechanical devices which require calibration and careful management of temperature, carbon dioxide, oxygen and the like.
All of this must happen before January 2004, when Basle 2 is meant to be ready.Basle 2 has problems of its own, to do with the calibration of risk, and with fierce and sometimes philosophical arguments about the definition of operational risk.
In one sting, he arrested four men trying to sell, for several hundred thousand dollars, material from a calibration kit for radiation-detection equipment.
