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What (who) is adjustment - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Adjust; Electric adjustment; Adjusted; Adjustment (disambiguation)
adjustment
(adjustments)
1.
An adjustment is a small change that is made to something such as a machine or a way of doing something.
Compensation could be made by adjustments to taxation...
Investment is up by 5.7% after adjustment for inflation.
N-COUNT: oft N to/for/in n
2.
An adjustment is a change in a person's behaviour or thinking.
He will have to make major adjustments to his thinking if he is to survive in office.
N-COUNT: oft N to n
adjustment
n.
1.
Arrangement, adjusting, putting in order, putting in good trim, setting to rights, disposal.
2.
Regulation, setting, putting right, state of regulation, good order, accurate arrangement.
3.
Settlement, reconciliation, pacification, agreement, understanding, mutual understanding.
4.
Fitting, adapting, accommodation, making suitable or conformable, conformity, suitedness.
Adjustment
·noun The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.
II. Adjustment ·noun Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling.
III. Adjustment ·noun 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.
Wikipedia
Adjustment
Adjustment may refer to:
- Adjustment (law), with several meanings
- Adjustment (psychology), the process of balancing conflicting needs
- Adjustment of observations, in mathematics, a method of solving an overdetermined system of equations
- Calibration, in metrology
- Spinal adjustment, in chiropractic practice
- In statistics, compensation for confounding variables
Examples of use of adjustment
1. "There might not be a gradual adjustment but precipitous adjustment," he says.
2. The employee also received $1,470 in a national market adjustment and $350 in a local market adjustment.
3. Unsurprisingly, they have found the adjustment tough.
4. The Sorinas‘ adjustment is complicated by divorce.
5. Cons: Expensive, operationally complex, limited intensity adjustment.