| 词汇 | adjustment |
| 释义 | adjustment noun[ C or U ] uk /əˈdʒʌst.mənt/ us /əˈdʒʌst.mənt/ adjustmentnoun[C or U] (CHANGE)B2 a small change: 调整；调节；小改动 She made a few minor adjustments to the focus of her camera.她稍微调了调相机的焦距。 Synonyms alteration amendment change(BECOMING DIFFERENT) modification(CHANGE) mutation The invitations are almost ready, I just need to make a couple of adjustments. It requires a few minor adjustments.需要作几处小的调整。 Use the on-screen menu to make adjustments to the colour and brightness of your monitor. The bike needed a few adjustments before it was ready to leave the shop. The software allows the artist to make detailed adjustments to the original drawing. Change and changes adaptive evolution alteration anti-evolutionism be ahead of the curveidiom blip evolutionism flatten flip-flop fluctuation for a change reconversion reformation regime change reinterpretation retransformation unspooling unsteadily unsteady untick variation adjustmentnoun[C or U] (BECOMING FAMILIAR)the ability to become more familiar with a new situation: （对新情况的）适应;适应力 He has so far failed to make the adjustment from school to work.他到现在还没有适应从学生生活到工作的变化。 Adapting and modifying acclimate acclimation acclimatization acclimatize acclimatize to something ambidextrous chameleon change with/keep up with/move with the timesidiom configure counter-adaptation doctor something with something pliantly preadaptation preadaptive put something back put something/someone forward unadapted unamended write someone out of something Zelig adjustment | Business Englishadjustment noun uk /əˈdʒʌstmənt/us [ C or U ] a slight change made to something to make it fit, work better, or be more suitable, or the act of making such a change: A small adjustment at the right place can make a significant difference. If the colour does not appear quite right, check your monitor settings for adjustment. adjustment to sthThe final plan will serve as an adjustment to the two-year budget approved last year. [ C or U ] a slight change to figures according to inflation, the time of year, etc. so that they can be compared in a useful way with other figures, or the act of making such a change: adjustment to sthThe finance minister will again delay the inflation adjustment to excise duty on petrol. adjustment for sthThe population has been split into 10 equal groups, ranked by income, after adjustment for family size. [ U ] the process of becoming more familiar with a new situation: make an adjustmentThis is a very, very big adjustment for us to make. [ U ] INSURANCE the job of getting information about an accident, theft, etc. in order to decide how much money to pay an insurance customer: There was a breach in the insurance companies' adjustment and payment. [ C ] INSURANCE the amount of money that an insurance company pays to a customer who has been involved in an accident, had something stolen, etc.: After calculating what the adjustment should have been, they analyse how the insurance company adjustments deviated from reality. See also cost of living adjustment debt adjustment Examples of adjustmentadjustment Macroeconomic adjustments should stimulate sustainable developments rather than furthering unsustainability; where they do lead to environmental degradation, compensatory projects might provide a short-term retrofitting option. The consumption and capital goods adjustments deteriorate the trade balance by raising absorption and lowering real income. Successful ageing abroad depends as much on learnt adjustments as on prior fitness and resources. The application of the logit method to these data requires two adjustments (neither of which came into play in the analysis of the hypothetical example). More importantly, as we saw, the outcomes represented strategic adjustments by political leaders, not their unalloyed ideological instincts. Factors which were not significant in the univariate analysis were not included in the subsequent models when adjustments were made. To avoid continual minor adjustments, a dead zone (+ 10% margin each side of the mean) is used. If necessary, this can lead to adjustments to the managed component (self-adjuster). In contrast, the size of clusters identified when using the adjustments varies widely. As a result, the primary prepositions look a lot like phonological words that are subject to such adjustments. Nonetheless, the exact nature of these adjustments will undoubtedly occupy much of linguistic theorizing in the years to come. They introduced new and similar mechanisms for inflationary adjustments. Various adjustments would need to be made to extend the analysis to the role of precedent in statutory interpretation. None of these small adjustments greatly affects the final conclusions. Several adjustments were made to better accommodate changes in volatility, to arrive at the final scales. See all examples of adjustment These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withadjustmentadjustmentThese are words often used in combination with adjustment. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. adjustment measure Family violence ratings had no relationship to any adjustmentmeasure. adjustment mechanism In an error correction model, the coefficient for the error correction mechanism measures the strength of this adjustmentmechanism. adjustment programme One should therefore not categorically demand a complete set of environmental covenants to be included in every adjustmentprogramme. 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