All 5 Uses
calibrate
in
The Infinite Sea
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- She could not know, as she bent over the child to peer into his mouth, that the device inside the child was calibrated to detect the carbon dioxide in her breath.†
p. v.1 *
- I don't know how finely it's been calibrated.†
p. 138.9
- How finely what's been calibrated to what?†
p. 138.9
- Two, the device was incorrectly calibrated.†
p. 151.4
- The device inside the child's body is calibrated to detect minute fluctuations in carbon dioxide, the chief component of human breath.†
p. 214.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(calibrate) make fine adjustments or measurements; or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring;
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)