Adjustment
[ə'dʒʌs(t)m(ə)nt] or [ə'dʒʌstmənt]
Definition
(noun.) the act of adjusting something to match a standard.
(noun.) making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances.
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Definition
(n.) The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.
(n.) Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling.
(n.) The operation of bringing all the parts of an instrument, as a microscope or telescope, into their proper relative position for use; the condition of being thus adjusted; as, to get a good adjustment; to be in or out of adjustment.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Arrangement, adjusting, putting in order, putting in good trim, setting to rights.[2]. Regulation, setting, putting right.[3]. Settlement, reconciliation, pacification.[4]. Fitting, adapting, accommodation, making suitable or conformable.
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Examples
- Because, there is always such a thing as an adjustment of affairs, in the case of people of any standing at all. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- By this means the instrument suits all eyes, without requiring adjustment, and the field of view is increased. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In which compensating adjustment of their noses, they were pretty much like Treasury, Bar, and Bishop, and all the rest of them. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Education is not infrequently defined as consisting in the acquisition of those habits that effect an adjustment of an individual and his environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But it is essential that adjustment be understood in its active sense of control of means for achieving ends. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Interaction with things may form habits of external adjustment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The problem is to find some social adjustment for all the special interests of a nation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Genetic psychology attempts to trace the development of mind as a mea ns of adjustment. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He did what he could in its adjustment on the couch, but the best that he could do was to cover it. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Of this device Mr. Edison remarks: Together we took press for several nights, my companion keeping the apparatus in adjustment and I copying. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Woodrow Wilson's is an elegant and highly refined intellect, nicely balanced and capable of fine adjustment. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The power of adjustment in general decreases with age. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He must be an artist, nobody else could have such fine adjustment and singleness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The improvement covered the adjustment of the thickness of the metal at the breech of the gun to the varying pressure strains along the bore. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The adjustment of the muscles is so quick and unconscious that we normally do not experience any difficulty in changing our range of view. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Frequent tuning is necessary, because the fine adjustments are easily disturbed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Then it became evident that the destruction of confidence in Russia had gone too far for any such adjustments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But Mr. Gladstone was no patient mechanic set upon easing and righting the clumsy injuries of those stupid adjustments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This means, in the second place, that this enduring adjustment supplies the background upon which are made specific adjustments, as occasion arises. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The acute economic clashes of the earlier period had been mitigated by rough adjustments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Forty-one distinct inventions relating to the phonograph, covering various forms of recorders, arrangement of parts, making of records, shaving tool, adjustments, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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