Adjust Definition

ə-jŭst

adjusted, adjusting, adjusts

verb

adjusted, adjusting, adjusts

To move or change (something) so as to be in a more effective arrangement or desired condition.

Adjust the timing of a car's engine; adjust a hearing aid to amplify lower frequencies.

American Heritage

To change so as to fit, conform, make suitable, etc.

Webster's New World

To come into conformity, as with one's surroundings; become suited, as to one's associates, circumstances, etc.

Webster's New World

To change so as to be suitable to or conform with something else.

Adjusted the schedule to allow for everyone's vacation plans; adjusted the old monetary figures to account for inflation.

American Heritage

To make accurate by regulating.

To adjust a watch.

Webster's New World

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Origin of Adjust

Obsolete French adjuster from Old French ajoster from Vulgar Latin adiūxtāre to put close to Latin ad- ad- Latin iūxtā near yeug- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Middle French adjuster, from Latin ad (“to, up to, towards”) + iustus (justus, “correct, proper, exact”)

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