calage
English translation: adjustment
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| 17:48 Sep 29, 2004 |
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|  Selected response from: NatalieRus Local time: 11:05 | ||||||
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| 5 | calibration |
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| 4 | adjustment |
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| 4 | parametering |
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| 3 | levelling of an instrument |
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6 mins confidence: 
calibration Explanation: ´+ |
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9 mins confidence: 
levelling of an instrument Explanation: (géodésie) Définition : Action de mettre un instrument de précision (horizon artificiel niveau) parfaitement horizontal au moyen de vis prévues à cet effet et appelées « vis de calage », ou vis calantes. I can't tell whether this fits your context, however you get different options at the following link: http://www.granddictionnaire.com/btml/fra/r_motclef/index102... Good luck! |
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adjustment Explanation: It's purely by experinece |
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1 day 16 hrs confidence:
parametering Explanation: I've come across this before, in connection with hydrological studies, and was told it is "parametering". It is part of the calculation process, nothing to do with the instruments themselves. For example, different catchments will have different runoff coefficients, etc. (more or less water will reach the river from a given spot in a given time), and those coefficients will vary with seasons, depending on soil dryness, amount of grass cover, density of other vegetation, sun (evaporation), etc. The hydrologist's job includes working out relationships between all these things to obtain a representative algorithm that will tell him what he wants to know about the effect of rainfall events of different intensities, etc. Working out these relationships is "calage", or "parametering". Calage (calcul) Selection of parameters, parametering Calage (re-) Grading up or down Calage (turbine, etc.) Setting |
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