Sentences with phrase «calibration points»
"Calibration points" refers to specific reference measurements or benchmarks that are used to ensure accuracy and adjust or align various systems or instruments. Full definition
Our conservative calibration point and analyses of gene sequence saturation and dating bias suggest it may be much older.
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The researchers also used the few known calyptrate fossils as calibration points for a molecular phylogeny to estimate the timing of major radiations in this clade.
The time the island formed offers a geological time scale calibration point for dating the most recent common ancestor of SIV.
Because parallax measurements are so difficult to obtain for far - distant star - forming regions on the other side of the galaxy, astronomers widely agree they will chiefly serve as important calibration points to augment existing kinematic distance measurements.
As an example of the instruments» cleverness, the analogue - look speedometer in the Atenza grade marks off the prevailing speed - limit zone with a red calibration point.
The best documented, most data - rich volcano in history, Pinatubo became a «calibration point» for the behavior of earlier volcanoes, says Jihong Cole - Dai, a professor at South Dakota State University.
Most attempts to date early molecular phylogenetic trees used the emergence of eukaryotes (around 2.0 billion years B.P.) as a calibration point.
So with much higher confidence for non-cloudy skies, it is a more verifiable «calibration point».