MEANING
1. To repeat or revise calibration against an appropriate reference.
2. To revise a judgment, standard, or expectation in light of new circumstances.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- recalibrate an instrument
- recalibrate a sensor
On the page
They recalibrated the instrument before trusting the discrepancy.
She recalibrated the sensor against the reference sample.
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Word forms
- Base
- recalibrate
- Past tense
- recalibrated
- Past participle
- recalibrated
- Present participle
- recalibrating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- recalibrate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are recalibrating
- Present perfect
- have/has recalibrated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been recalibrating
- Past
- recalibrated
- Past continuous
- was/were recalibrating
- Past perfect
- had recalibrated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been recalibrating
- Future
- will recalibrate
- Future continuous
- will be recalibrating
- Future perfect
- will have recalibrated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been recalibrating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: recalibrate; recalibrates; recalibrated; recalibrated; recalibrating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: recalibrates.
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