"recalibrate" meaning in English

See recalibrate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: recalibrates [present, singular, third-person], recalibrating [participle, present], recalibrated [participle, past], recalibrated [past]
Etymology: From re- + calibrate. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|re|calibrate}} re- + calibrate Head templates: {{en-verb}} recalibrate (third-person singular simple present recalibrates, present participle recalibrating, simple past and past participle recalibrated)
  1. To calibrate for a second or subsequent time. Synonyms: re-calibrate Translations (calibrate again): 重新校准 (Chinese Mandarin), ricalibrare (Italian), èrcalibrer (Norman)
    Sense id: en-recalibrate-en-verb-a4pKoO3K Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with re-

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for recalibrate meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "re",
        "3": "calibrate"
      },
      "expansion": "re- + calibrate",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From re- + calibrate.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "recalibrates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "recalibrating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "recalibrated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "recalibrated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "recalibrate (third-person singular simple present recalibrates, present participle recalibrating, simple past and past participle recalibrated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with re-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016 February 7, Michael Barbaro, “Once Impervious, Marco Rubio Is Diminished by a Caustic Chris Christie”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "Throughout the evening, Mr. Christie’s admonition about canned lines and rehearsed speeches hovered and seemed to recalibrate how the crowd — and television viewers — processed what Mr. Rubio said (and resaid, over and over).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To calibrate for a second or subsequent time."
      ],
      "id": "en-recalibrate-en-verb-a4pKoO3K",
      "links": [
        [
          "calibrate",
          "calibrate"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "re-calibrate"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "calibrate again",
          "word": "重新校准"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "calibrate again",
          "word": "ricalibrare"
        },
        {
          "code": "nrf",
          "lang": "Norman",
          "sense": "calibrate again",
          "word": "èrcalibrer"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "recalibrate"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "re",
        "3": "calibrate"
      },
      "expansion": "re- + calibrate",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From re- + calibrate.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "recalibrates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "recalibrating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "recalibrated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "recalibrated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "recalibrate (third-person singular simple present recalibrates, present participle recalibrating, simple past and past participle recalibrated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with re-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016 February 7, Michael Barbaro, “Once Impervious, Marco Rubio Is Diminished by a Caustic Chris Christie”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "Throughout the evening, Mr. Christie’s admonition about canned lines and rehearsed speeches hovered and seemed to recalibrate how the crowd — and television viewers — processed what Mr. Rubio said (and resaid, over and over).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To calibrate for a second or subsequent time."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "calibrate",
          "calibrate"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "re-calibrate"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "calibrate again",
      "word": "重新校准"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "calibrate again",
      "word": "ricalibrare"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "calibrate again",
      "word": "èrcalibrer"
    }
  ],
  "word": "recalibrate"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (384852d and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.