Either an activity that must be done constantly, or something you bring up when you want to subtly tell someone to go fuck themselves.
Shepard: "Hey Garrus, got a minute?"
Garrus: "Can it wait for a bit? I'm in the middle of some calibrations."
Garrus: "Can it wait for a bit? I'm in the middle of some calibrations."
by the goat daemon July 9, 2010
President Obama wishes he had "calibrated" his criticism of the Cambridge Police Department, so that he hadn't come under so much heat for the way he phrased it originally.
by MalibuGA July 25, 2009
1. The proccess of data acquisition (obtained by comparison against standards) able to anticipate the behavior of someting.
2. The data so obtained.
3. The final report or documentation showing such data.
4. The stage in which someting is regarding the level of its calibration knoledge.
2. The data so obtained.
3. The final report or documentation showing such data.
4. The stage in which someting is regarding the level of its calibration knoledge.
Adjustment is not calibration. When we adjust something we change its behavior (usually to move it closer to standards aiming a better performance); when we calibrate we just understand its behavior so that we can compensate or even adjust it.
by Arturo Cortijo March 11, 2008
by yepyepthatsright May 26, 2009
To find calibre the (caliber) of; correlate readings of (instrument etc) with a standard or commonly accepted value.
by IrishRepublicanArmy December 26, 2003
by el enn July 11, 2008