Look up: Adjustment

1. adjustment
   Type: Term Pronunciation: ă-jŭst′mĕnt Definitions: 1. In dentistry, any modification made to a fixed or removable prosthesis during or after its insertion to perfect its adaptation and function. 2. A summarizing procedure for a statistical measure in which the effects of differe...
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2. adjustment
   Filing down the face of an overweight planchet. Such filing marks often survive the coining process. This is common on 18th century coins.
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3. adjustment
   [n] - making or becoming suitable 2. [n] - the act of adjusting something to match a standard
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4. Adjustment
   a modification made upon a dental prosthesis after it has been completed and inserted into the mouth.
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5. adjustment
   a process by which some parameter, temperature, pressure, etc., is given a predetermined value Category: Mechanical engineering • the dynamic process wherein the throughts,feelings,behaviour,and biophysiological mechanisms of the indivudial continually change to adjust to the environment...
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6. Adjustment
   Ad·just'ment (-m e nt) noun [ Confer French ajustement . See Adjust .] 1. The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation. « Success depends on the nicest and min...
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7. adjustment
   1. The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation. 'Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned.' (Paley) ... 2. Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution...
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8. adjustment
   accommodation noun making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
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9. adjustment
   noun an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; `an allowance for profit`
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10. adjustment
    (ә-just´mәnt) the changing of something, such as behavior, to improve its relationship to something else.
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11. Adjustment
    • (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 b...
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12. adjustment
    (from the article `contract`) The law also allows contractual relations to be adjusted when they have been thrown out of balance by unforeseen circumstances. The task of ...
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13. adjustment
    in psychology, the behavioral process by which humans and other animals maintain an equilibrium among their various needs or between their needs and ... [3 related articles]
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14. Adjustment
    The operation intended to bring a transducer into a state of performance suitable for its use.
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15. adjustment
    set of operations carried out on a measuring an instrument in order that it provides given indications corresponding to given values of the measurand NOTE - When the instrument is made to give a null indication corresponding to a null value of the measurand, the set of operations is called zero adjustment.
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16. Adjustment
    In marine insurance, adjustment is the settling of the amount of the loss which the insurer is entitled under a particular policy to recover, and if the policy is subscribed by more than one underwriter, of the amounts which the underwriters respectively are liable to pay.
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17. Adjustment
    `Adjustment` (from late Latin ad-juxtare, derived from juxta, near, but early confounded with a supposed derivation from Justus, right) means regulating, adapting or settling in a variety of contexts: --><ref name="IEV">-->. References : See also :
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