| adjustment | | |
| n. (event) | 1. accommodation, adjustment, fitting | making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances. |
| ~ readjustment | the act of adjusting again (to changed circumstances). |
| ~ domestication | accommodation to domestic life.; "her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication" |
| ~ habituation | a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions. |
| ~ betterment, improvement, advance | a change for the better; progress in development. |
| ~ shakedown | initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state.; "the new industry's economic shakedown" |
| n. (act) | 2. adjustment, alteration, modification | the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment). |
| ~ laxation, loosening | the act of making something less tight. |
| ~ tightening | the act of making something tighter.; "the tightening of economic controls" |
| ~ change | the action of changing something.; "the change of government had no impact on the economy"; "his change on abortion cost him the election" |
| ~ accommodation | (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye. |
| ~ adaptation | (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light). |
| ~ tune | the adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency. |
| n. (act) | 3. adjustment, readjustment, registration | the act of adjusting something to match a standard. |
| ~ calibration, standardisation, standardization | the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument.; "the thermometer needed calibration" |
| ~ alignment | the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other. |
| ~ collimation | the accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope. |
| ~ temperament | an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys. |
| ~ tune-up | adjustments made to an engine to improve its performance. |
| ~ synchronising, synchronisation, synchronization, synchronizing | an adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison. |
| ~ voicing | the act of adjusting an organ pipe (or wind instrument) so that it conforms to the standards of tone and pitch and color. |
| n. (process) | 4. adaptation, adaption, adjustment | the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions). |
| ~ acclimation, acclimatisation, acclimatization | adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment). |
| ~ dedifferentiation | the loss of specialization in form or function. |
| ~ domestication | adaptation to intimate association with human beings. |
| ~ biological process, organic process | a process occurring in living organisms. |
| ~ specialisation, differentiation, specialization | (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function.; "cell differentiation in the developing embryo" |
| n. (possession) | 5. adjustment, allowance | an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances.; "an allowance for profit" |
| ~ cost-of-living allowance | an allowance for changes in the consumer price index. |
| ~ depreciation allowance | an allowance for loss due to depreciation. |
| ~ deduction, discount | an amount or percentage deducted. |
| ~ seasonal adjustment | a statistical adjustment made to accommodate predictable fluctuations as a function of the season of the year.; "seasonal adjustments for housing starts must be made in mid-winter" |
| ~ tare | an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods. |
| ~ recompense | payment or reward (as for service rendered). |
| cebu | | |
| n. (location) | 1. cebu, cebu city | an important seaport on the island of Cebu in the Philippines. |
| ~ city, metropolis, urban center | a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts.; "Ancient Troy was a great city" |
| ~ philippines, republic of the philippines | a republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946. |
| n. (location) | 2. cebu | one of the Visayan islands of the central Philippines; important for its fine harbor. |
| ~ philippine islands, philippines | an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands. |
| ~ island | a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water. |
| ~ cebuan | inhabitant of the island of Cebu; a member of the Visayan people of the Philippines. |
| sebum | | |
| n. (body) | 1. sebum | the oily secretion of the sebaceous glands; with perspiration it moistens and protects the skin. |
| ~ secretion | a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell. |
| ~ smegma | a white secretion of the sebaceous glands of the foreskin. |
| coincide | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. co-occur, coincide, cooccur | go with, fall together. |
| ~ coexist | exist together. |
| ~ overlap | coincide partially or wholly.; "Our vacations overlap" |
| v. (change) | 2. coincide, concur | happen simultaneously.; "The two events coincided" |
| ~ come about, hap, happen, occur, take place, go on, fall out, pass off, pass | come to pass.; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" |
| v. (stative) | 3. coincide | be the same.; "our views on this matter coincided" |
| ~ correspond, gibe, jibe, match, tally, agree, fit, check | be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics.; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" |
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