Synonyms:
adjustment, accommodation, fitting
Meaning: making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
Synonyms:
alteration, modification, adjustment
Meaning: the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
Synonyms:
adjustment, registration, readjustment
Meaning: the act of adjusting something to match a standard
Usage examples
AN ADJUSTMENT OF NATURE
The harmony may rest on a still more complex social adjustment.
It was our love of the Unerring Artistic Adjustment of Nature that inspired us.
Wealth makes possible a new adjustment of life, a new character, both in the individual and in the society.
This change was sudden, extreme, and temporary, and there has since been a gradual adjustment and a return to the former values.
"Then," said I, "when you led us against the lumberman--the--Klondiker --it wasn't altogether on account of the Unerring Artistic Adjustment of Nature?"
"Then," said I, "when you led us against the lumberman--the--Klondiker --it wasn't altogether on account of the Unerring Artistic Adjustment of Nature?"
From the very nature of the case it was, of necessity, a period of adjustment; and to Mrs. Kendall's consternation there was every indication of friction, if not disaster.
Finally, the best economic adjustment must conform to the abiding physical and moral welfare of the user, not to a temporary impulse; and such a choice is far more difficult than that of the temporary good.
At last the bollworm had attacked the cotton--the poison ivy was reaching out its tendrils to entwine the summer boarder--the millionaire lumberman, thinly disguised as the Alaskan miner, was about to engulf our Milly and upset Nature's adjustment.