A calibrated thermometer.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object), : a sales strategy calibrated to rich investors.    From Dictionary.com. 

Some people probably can hand-roll a round calibrated from a specific rifle for 120 yards, 2 feet, 4 and a half inches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Petzal: .270 vs.] Reference

Of Kate Bernadette Benedict's Here From Away is up: Poet performs acts of devotion in calibrated observance of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [My review ...] Reference

Of a name calibrated all their musing differences.    From Wordnik.com.  [November « 2007 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference

"Actually, it's called the calibrated vaginal stimulator," Komisaruk tells me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: July 3, 2005 - July 9, 2005 Archives] Reference

But I acknowledge using these terms loosely in a title calibrated ” as titles must be ” to stir interest.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Artists in Exile'] Reference

The third misconception is that most recent (consumer) devices are already accurate / calibrated, which is just nonsense.    From Wordnik.com.  [The p-Code Machine] Reference

Obama says he should have "calibrated" his response better.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

A so called 'calibrated' monitor will not show those spokes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Color Wheel Question] Reference

Subbarao has described as "calibrated" tightening that started last March.    From Wordnik.com.  [India Needs Tough Love From Its Central Bank] Reference

Without these, Facebook reduces friendship to a kind of calibrated performance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The break-up graph, the new profile, and why I hate Facebook's new See Friendship button] Reference

The study was "calibrated" with nine students, each thinking of 58 different words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen's Lighthouse: May 2008 Archives] Reference

In the winner-take-all environment of globalization, there is no "calibrated," half way to economic leadership.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Last Chance For Europe] Reference

Whenever I see a paper in the American Economic Review that uses a "calibrated" model, my instinct is to skip it.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Kind of Global Warming Skeptic?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Serving sizes can be "calibrated" to be just under half a gram's worth of trans-fat and receive the coveted zero number.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hemi Weingarten: 10 Things the FDA Can Do to Improve Nutrition Labeling] Reference

Finance Commission for 'calibrated' exit strategy from stimulus.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Use agro-textiles to boost yield, Minister tells farmers] Reference

That is because nearly everything about a model can be "calibrated".    From Wordnik.com.  [BC Bloggers] Reference

“Actually, it’s called the calibrated vaginal stimulator,” Komisaruk tells me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cashing In on Female Orgasms | Impact Lab] Reference

Obama: acting stupidly, talking pompously: could have "calibrated" words differently?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservative Edge - The worlds first conservative online information and news source!] Reference

HDTV calibration service by putting two HDTVs next to one another: a "calibrated" HDTV and a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference

Finance Commission has asked the government to adopt a 'calibrated' strategy for withdrawing stimulus measures provided to spur the.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Use agro-textiles to boost yield, Minister tells farmers] Reference

"calibrated" exit from loose monetary policy, which markets had taken to mean 25 basis point rate hikes at each quarterly review.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

His next move against Saddam must be carefully calibrated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raising The Stakes] Reference

Such judgments, while useful to chefs, can't be calibrated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Test Flight: Lufthansa Searches for Savor in the Sky] Reference

Gorelick wants an approach that is narrow and carefully calibrated.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Civil Rights Tug Of War] Reference

Game play is precisely calibrated to balance challenge and progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Look What I Learned!] Reference

A balanced-budget standard demands that benefits and burdens be calibrated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spigot Of Last Resort] Reference

Everything about Margolies-Mezvinsky seemed calibrated for success in 1992.    From Wordnik.com.  [Housebroken] Reference

So far, the strategy seemed calibrated to produce exactly the wrong result.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trial By Unfriendly Fire] Reference

Earlier, Tenner carefully hung nooses calibrated to the heights of his intended victims.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pondering Death Row] Reference

But de Klerk is no fool: his move was carefully calibrated to call the rejectionists 'bluff.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gambling Man] Reference

But still, it was breathtaking to see the calming effect of a calibrated show of U.S. might.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberia: 'Thank You, George Bush'] Reference

Properly calibrated, shame falls somewhere between mild embarrassment and cruel humiliation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return Of Shame] Reference

Guidebooks still warned about the finely gradated social hierarchies expressed in perfectly calibrated bows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turning Un-Japanese] Reference

The equipment was so poorly calibrated that its results depended on where in the machine the sample was placed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of a Scare] Reference

Sometimes the calibrated position is right, sometimes it's politically effective and sometimes it's just plain slick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real Character Issues] Reference

West Point's seem calibrated to reinforce to its cadets that they are perpetually connected to those who came before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Worried They Will Miss the War] Reference

The panels — subtle, creamy and calibrated not by scheme but sensibility — are the best-looking things in the show.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Room With a Hue] Reference

The rest of the process must be based on carefully calibrated expectations, legalistic half-truths and subtle evasions.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Quiet Diplomacy] Reference

From Powell, O'Connor learned to write carefully calibrated opinions based on the facts, rather than sweeping legal doctrine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen of the Center] Reference

When such meticulously calibrated play ceases to give us joy, let the nukes fly, the icecaps melt and the Great Irksomeness begin.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Comic Kingdom Made of Words] Reference