adjustment
Other forms: adjustments
The act of making an alteration or modification is an adjustment. If you buy a new pair of jeans, but they are too long, you can make a quick adjustment and hem them, have someone else hem them, or use safety pins.
The process of adapting to your environmental conditions is also called an adjustment. After you leave home for college, both you and your parents will have a period of adjustment. Some people adjust easier to change than others — you may be having a ball going to class, eating cereal for dinner, and making new friends but an adjustment your parents will have to make is that they will need to stop worrying about you.
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the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)synonyms: alteration, modificationtypes:tighteningthe act of making something tighteraccommodation(physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eyeadaptation(physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)tunethe adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequencydark adaptationthe process of adjusting the eyes to low levels of illumination; cones adapt first; rods continue to adapt for up to four hourslight adaptationthe process of adjusting the eyes to relatively high levels of illumination; the pupil constricts and the cones system is operativetake-upthe action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling intype of:changethe action of changing something
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the act of adjusting something to match a standardsynonyms: readjustment, registrationtypes:alignmentthe act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each othercollimationthe accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescopetemperamentan adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keystune-upadjustments made to an engine to improve its performancesynchronisation, synchronising, synchronization, synchronizingan adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unisonvoicingthe act of adjusting an organ pipe (or wind instrument) so that it conforms to the standards of tone and pitch and colorequal temperamentthe division of the scale based on an octave that is divided into twelve exactly equal semitonescamberthe alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the bottom than at the toptoe-inthe alignment of the front wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the front than at the backtype of:calibration, standardisation, standardizationthe act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument
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making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstancessynonyms: accommodation, fittingtypes:readjustmentthe act of adjusting again (to changed circumstances)domesticationaccommodation to domestic lifehabituationa general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditionsshakedowninitial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory statetype of:
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the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)synonyms: adaptation, adaptiontypes:acclimation, acclimatisation, acclimatizationadaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment)dedifferentiationthe loss of specialization in form or functiondomesticationadaptation to intimate association with human beingsdifferentiation, specialisation, specialization(biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular functiontype of:
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an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstancessynonyms: allowancetypes:cost-of-living allowancean allowance for changes in the consumer price indexdepreciation allowancean allowance for loss due to depreciationseasonal adjustmenta statistical adjustment made to accommodate predictable fluctuations as a function of the season of the yeartarean adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goodstrade discounta discount from the list price of a commodity allowed by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a merchanttype of:recompensepayment or reward (as for service rendered)
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