A common example of a two-point calibration is to calibrate a temperature sensor using an ice-water bath and boiling water for the two references. Thermocouples and other temperature sensors are quite linear within this temperature range, so two point calibration should produce good resuts. It means that the calibrations performed are traceable to NIST through all the standards used to calibrate the standards, no matter how many levels exist between the shop and NIST.

Understanding the Context

Use the process below to calibrate a patient’s self-measured blood pressure (SMBP) device whenever self-measurement results appear to have an unreasonable discrepency compared to in-office results. This publication, How to Use and Calibrate Your Food Thermometer (FS-1092), is a series of publications of the University of Maryland Extension and Family and Consumer Sciences. The Calibrate media campaign is the auto industry’s latest attempt to undermine California’s public health goals by creating an artificial crisis and misleading consumers.