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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Tests and calibrates controlling, indicating, and measuring instruments and devices, such as monochromators, pressure regulators, tachometers, temperature controls, and thermometers, to ensure specified operating performance, using handtools, testing and calibrating instruments and equipment, and precision measuring instruments: Reads quality control manual and testing specifications to obtain data to test or calibrate specific devices. Selects and installs accessories, such as adapters, indicating gauges, or holding devices on test or calibration fixture, and connects instrument or device to fixture, according to specifications, using handtools. Sets controls to regulate factors, such as current flow, timing cycle, pressure, temperature, or vacuum, according to specifications, and activates test or calibration equipment. Observes readings on meters and gauges, and other displays and performance of device or instrument to identify functional defects and determine calibration requirements. Adjusts calibration mechanisms to obtain specified operational performance of device or instrument, using handtools and precision measuring and calibrating instruments and equipment. Applies sealing compound on calibration mechanism to prevent readjustment of settings and loss of calibration. Rejects malfunctioning devices and routes devices to specified department for rework or salvaging of parts. May disassemble instrument or device to determine cause of defective operation and notify supervisory personnel of findings. (references) |
| Calibrates and repairs torque and other wrenches, using test scale and handtools: Sets wrench indicator on end of wrench handle to maximum setting and inserts head of wrench into socket on test scale. Twists wrench until wrench mechanism releases and notes corresponding indication on scale. Adjusts wrench mechanism so that indications on scale coincide with releases of torque wrench, using allen wrench. Disassembles defective wrenches, examines parts, and replaces or repairs parts, using handtools. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CALIBRATOR |
| Specialty definitions using "CALIBRATOR": CALIBRATION DATA ♦ electric-sorting-machine operator ♦ NUT-SORTER OPERATOR ♦ PETROLEUM INSPECTOR ♦ RADIOPHARMACIST. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "CALIBRATOR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CALIBRATOR" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "CALIBRATOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | Eichmeister (gauger, gaugers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | μετρητήσ (counter, gauge, gauger, measurer, meter, register, teller). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כיל (surveyor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alibratorcay калибратор. (various references) calibrador (calipers, callipers, Gage, gauge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CALIBRATOR": calibrators. (additional references) | |
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"CALIBRATOR" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cellibratory, Ciliberto. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-i-l-o-r-r-t" | |
-2 letters: arbitral, braciola. | |
-3 letters: acrobat, airboat, carbora, orbital, railcar. | |
-4 letters: abator, aboral, aortal, aortic, arabic, arroba, atrial, bailor, barrio, caroli, carrot, catalo, citola, citral, cobalt, coital, corral, lariat, latria, lictor, lorica, rabato, racial, rialto, rictal, tailor, tribal, trocar. | |
-5 letters: abaci, aboil, abort, acari, actor, altar, aorta, arbor, artal, atria, baric, biota, bloat, boart, bolar, boral. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-i-l-o-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: calibrators. | |
+3 letters: particleboard, recalibration. | |
+4 letters: arboricultural, barometrically, particleboards, recalibrations. | |
+5 letters: corynebacterial, enterobacterial. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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