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Adjustment

The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.

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Narrower term 23

Acclimation 76% connected

The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.

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Acclimatization 76% connected

The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured.

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Accommodation 76% connected

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.

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Adaptation 76% connected

The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.

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Alignment 76% connected

The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adj…

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Collimation 76% connected

The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper position relat…

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Deduction 76% connected

Act or process of deducing or inferring.

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Differentiation 76% connected

The act of differentiating.

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Discount 76% connected

To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt paym…

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Domestication 76% connected

The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.

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Habituation 76% connected

The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.

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Laxation 76% connected

The act of loosening or slackening, or the state of being loosened or slackened.

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Loosening 76% connected

of Loosen

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Readjustment 76% connected

A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.

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Shakedown 76% connected

A temporary substitute for a bed, as one made on the floor or on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of straw for this purpose.

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Specialization 76% connected

The act of specializing, or the state of being spezialized.

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Synchronization 76% connected

The act of synchronizing; concurrence of events in respect to time.

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Tare 76% connected

Tore.

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Temperament 76% connected

Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts.

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Tightening 76% connected

of Tighten

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Tune 76% connected

A sound; a note; a tone.

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Voicing 76% connected

of Voice

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Advance 76% connected

To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

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Betterment 76% connected

A making better; amendment; improvement.

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Calibration 76% connected

The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the dete…

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Improvement 76% connected

The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of th…

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Recompense 76% connected

To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.

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Accommodate 74% connected

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

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Accommodate 74% connected

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

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Adapt 74% connected

Fitted; suited.

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Adapt 74% connected

Fitted; suited.

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Adjust 74% connected

To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a stan…

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Adjust 74% connected

To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a stan…

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Conform 74% connected

Of the same form; similar in import; conformable.

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Conform 74% connected

Of the same form; similar in import; conformable.

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Modify 74% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Modify 74% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Suit 74% connected

The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.

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Suit 74% connected

The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.

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Synonym 9

Accommodation 92% connected

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.

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Adaptation 92% connected

The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.

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Adaption 92% connected

Adaptation.

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Allowance 92% connected

Approval; approbation.

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Alteration 92% connected

The act of altering or making different.

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Fitting 92% connected

of Fit

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Modification 92% connected

The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Readjustment 92% connected

A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.

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Registration 92% connected

The act of registering; registry; enrollment.

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