adjust
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
adjust/əˈʤʌst/
▶verb
- 1 alter (something) slightly in order to achieve a correct or desired result.
■ adapt or become used to a new situation.
- 2 assess (loss or damages) when settling an insurance claim.
– derivatives
adjustability noun,
adjustable adjective,
adjuster noun,
adjustment noun.
adjustability noun,
adjustable adjective,
adjuster noun,
adjustment noun.
– origin C17: from obs. Fr. adjuster, from OFr. ajoster ‘to approximate’, based on L. ad- ‘to’ + juxta ‘near’.
'adjust' also found in these Oxford entries:
adaptable
- attune
- calibrate
- correct
- decompression chamber
- depower
- focus
- fudge
- gear
- interfere
- jack screw
- j'adoube
- justify
- kern
- move
- norm
- pedal steel guitar
- phase
- prefix
- preset
- proportion
- rack
- readjust
- refocus
- reposition
- revalue
- rig
- screw
- set
- sight
- temper
- titrate
- trim
- tune
- tuning peg
- turn
- water drum
- wrench
- zero
