decalibrate.
To lose calibration and therefore not be accurate.
Meaning & usage
To lose calibration and therefore not be accurate.
Aneroid and electronic instruments, decalibrate easily and frequently and require routine accuracy checks.
To perform some action to remove the calibration of an instrument.
it is important to not go over the pipetteman volume limit because that will decalibrate the machine.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English calibrate English decalibrate From de- + calibrate.
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