The present participle form meaning the ongoing process of adjusting or checking a measuring device to ensure accuracy.
From calibrate plus the present participle suffix -ing. This form allows the word to function as both a verb and an adjective describing the action in progress.
Calibrating is the reason why you sometimes see scientists fiddling with equipment before experiments—they're not playing around, they're literally setting the truth dial so their data won't be garbage!
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