单词 | adjustor |
释义 | adjustorn. 1. a. = adjuster n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > [noun] > in order to conform > to a standard or purpose > one who adjuster1673 adjustor1844 1844 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 28 Dec. 6/3 He..had acted in the capacity of adjustor as well as inspector of weights and measures. 1865 Naut. Mag. & Naval Chron. Oct. 537 For him to complain of compass difficulties would be to impugn first the judgment and skill of the adjustor. 1873 Times 30 June 17/3 Mr S. Gabriel, adjustor of artificial teeth, is specially renowned for the perfection of his teeth. 1928 Evening Independent (Massillon, Ohio) 20 Oct. 12/4 (advt.) 30 years experience as an adjustor of all makes of family machines. 1943 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 10 July 3/6 Clifford H. Casey, rent director of the Joplin-Neosho area, disclaims authority as an adjustor of all problems arising between landlords and tenants. 2005 J. MacIntyre Whole Golf Bk. xxiii. 243 Often referred to as ‘assigning the odds’, done by the ‘adjustor of the odds’, generally the use of handicaps in golf was for a single purpose. b. = adjuster n. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > one who insures someone else > insurance agent or broker ensurer1649 insurance broker1651 adjustor1871 twister1924 1871 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 22 Jan. Ireton, the adjustor of the Phoenix Insurance Company here, was at Chicago during the fire. 1923 Times 4 Aug. 16/5 Insurance claims adjustors and assessors accountants and surveyors. 1948 H. C. Larsen & N. W. Johnson Managing Farm Finances 61 Indemnities..may be less in case of partial loss or if the loss as figured by an adjustor is less than that claimed. 1993 Star Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) 21 Nov. iii. 5/1 A communications group for insurance adjustors and auditors who transmit data from investigation sites to their offices. 2009 G. Wallace Everything Will Be All Right (2010) xliv. 237 Several employees resented being skipped over in favor of the youngest and newest adjustor in the office. 2. A means by which something may be adjusted; = adjuster n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > [noun] > adjustment for accuracy or smooth operation > that which modulatora1527 adjustment1793 adjustor1854 1854 Peninsular Jrnl. Med. & Collateral Sci. July 11 Jarvis's Adjustor, though by no means an indispensable article in the reduction of dislocations,..possesses advantages over all ordinary apparatus. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 16 Apr. 4/3 The engine is 60-70-h.p., and the final drive is by chain, the adjustors of which act as radius-rods. 1966 Times 28 Sept. 3/2 (advt.) The car is completely new as the mileage is only 3,100 and there are many costly extras fitted, such as Reutter front seat adjustors, electric windows,..and G. B. plate. 1998 Surfstore (Stockton) Catal. 12/4 Minihead batten adjustor, which now allows the minibatten to be removed without surgery. 3. Zoology and Palaeontology. In a living or fossil brachiopod: any of several muscles which adjust the position of the valves of the shell (with respect to each other or to the pedicle). Also adjustor muscle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Brachiopoda > [noun] > member of > parts of periosteum1758 periostracum1833 pallium1834 mantle cavity1853 adjustor1857 jugum1888 protegulum1891 1857 Proc. Royal Soc. 8 464 These the author [sc. A. Hancock] terms the dorsal and ventral adjustors. 1859 A. Hancock in Philos. Trans. 1858 (Royal Soc.) 148 803 The three pairs of adjustors are apparently for the purpose of keeping the valves opposed to each other,—of holding them adjusted. 1895 Cambr. Nat. Hist. III. 477 There are three pairs of adjustor muscles..called respectively the central.., external.., and posterior..adjustors, whose action adjusts the shells when all contract together, and brings about a certain sliding movement of the shells on one another when they act independently. 1930 Jrnl. Paleontol. 4 371 This duplex character of the anterior adductors appears in many orthoid shells, especially in Schizophoria and Orthotichia. 1993 E. N. K. Clarkson Invertebr. Palaeontol. & Evol. (ed. 3) vii. 157/2 These two sets of muscles, and the adjustors also, leave well defined muscle scars inside the valves. 2004 Jrnl. Paleontol. 78 285 (caption) Note abundant muscle attachment pits, herein interpreted as muscle bases for pedicle adjustor muscles. 4. Physiology. A nerve cell or structure, usually of the central nervous system, which is interposed between other elements of a neural pathway, typically serving to adjust the response of an effector to a receptor; esp. an interneuron. Frequently attributive. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > substance of nervous system > [noun] > nerve cell > types of nerve vesicle1839 brain cell1848 stellate cell1870 Purkinje cell1872 neuroblast1878 touch cell1878 Golgi('s) cell1892 memory cell1892 astrocyte1896 astroblast1897 motor neuron1897 cytochrome1898 stichochrome1899 monaxon1900 basket cell1901 relay neuron1903 internuncial neuron1906 sheath cell1906 motoneuron1908 adjustor1909 satellite1912 microglia1924 oligodendroglia1924 sympathicoblast1927 pituicyte1930 oligodendrocyte1932 sympathoblast1934 sympathogonia1934 interneuron1938 Renshaw cell1954 1909 G. H. Parker in Pop. Sci. Monthly July 60 This reaction has the character of a simple reflex in which the retina is the receptor, with the optic nerve as its transmitting organ, and the stem of the brain is the adjustor from which the oculomotor nerve transmits peripherally to the effector, the sphincter pupillæ. 1918 J. R. Angell Introd. Psychol. iii. 26 The central adjustor nerves are located within the great masses of the spinal cord and the brain. 1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) x. 142 The sensory cell or first neuron is the receptor, the second neuron is the adjustor, and the responding organ involved is the effector. 1993 C. L. Hogue Lat. Amer. Insects & Entomol. i. 31/2 A key element of the nervous system in determining behavior is the associative (adjustor, internuncial) neuron. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1844 |
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