Assertion: thermometer | /r/HasProperty | calibrated
Facets:
value: usually
type: DEGREE
value: by comparing them
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Thermometers can be calibrated either by comparing them with other calibrated thermometers or by checking them against known fixed points on the temperature scale.
text: Other thermometers to be calibrated are put into the same bath or block and allowed to come to equilibrium, then the scale marked, or any deviation from the instrument scale recorded.
text: The thermometers being calibrated are compared to calibrated thermometers by means of a bath whose temperature is uniformly stable.
text: Such thermometers are usually calibrated so that one can read the temperature simply by observing the level of the fluid in the thermometer.