| 单词 | adjustment |
| 释义 | adjustment (once / 774 pages) 1n 2n 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. WORD FAMILYadjustment: adjustments+/adjust: adjustable, adjusted, adjuster, adjusting, adjustive, adjustment, adjusts, readjust/adjustable: adjustably, unadjustable/adjusted: unadjusted/adjuster: adjusters/readjust: readjusted, readjusting, readjustment, readjusts/readjustment: readjustments USAGE EXAMPLESFlorida law requires annual adjustments to gas taxes based on changes in the consumer price index, which measures what people are paying for goods. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Those adjustments are necessary to maintain as long a pop career as Ms. Carey’s. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) This minor adjustment also removes another major hurdle for some savers: affordability. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) Syn|Hypo|Hyper alteration, modification laxation, loosening the act of making something less tight tighteningthe act of making something tighter accommodation(physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye adaptation(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 frequency undoing, unfastening, untyingloosening the ties that fasten something dark adaptationthe process of adjusting the eyes to low levels of illumination; cones adapt first; rods continue to adapt for up to four hours light adaptationthe process of adjusting the eyes to relatively high levels of illumination; the pupil constricts and the cones system is operative take-upthe action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in change the action of changing something 2n the act of adjusting something to match a standard Syn|Hypo|Hyper readjustment, registration alignment the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other collimationthe accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope temperamentan adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys tune-upadjustments made to an engine to improve its performance synchronisation, synchronising, synchronization, synchronizingan adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison voicingthe act of adjusting an organ pipe (or wind instrument) so that it conforms to the standards of tone and pitch and color equal temperamentthe division of the scale based on an octave that is divided into twelve exactly equal semitones camberthe alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the bottom than at the top toe-inthe alignment of the front wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the front than at the back calibration, standardisation, standardization the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument 3n making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances Syn|Hypo|Hyper accommodation, fitting readjustment the act of adjusting again (to changed circumstances) domesticationaccommodation to domestic life habituationa general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions shakedowninitial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state advance, betterment, improvement a change for the better; progress in development 4n the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions) 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper adaptation, adaption acclimation, acclimatisation, acclimatization adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment) dedifferentiationthe loss of specialization in form or function domesticationadaptation to intimate association with human beings differentiation, specialisation, specialization(biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function biological process, organic process a process occurring in living organisms n an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances Syn|Hypo|Hyper allowance cost-of-living allowance an allowance for changes in the consumer price index depreciation allowancean allowance for loss due to depreciation deduction, discountan amount or percentage deducted seasonal adjustmenta statistical adjustment made to accommodate predictable fluctuations as a function of the season of the year tarean adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods trade discounta discount from the list price of a commodity allowed by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a merchant recompense payment or reward (as for service rendered) |
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