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  1. transitive verb To change so as to match or fit; cause to correspond.
  2. transitive verb To bring into proper relationship.
  3. transitive verb To adapt or conform, as to new conditions: "unable to adjust themselves to their environment” (Karl A. Menninger). See Synonyms at adapt.
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  • C-x C-- runs the command text-scale-adjust, which is an interactive autoloaded —  Planet Twisted
  • As these titans of old have struggled to re-adjust, a similar tale has been unfolding in the TV industry. —  C21Media.net
  • Gun one is also known as the adjust gun, meaning that any missions where the rounds must be adjusted on to target will be shot by this gun. —  Marine Corps Moms
  • While those expecting a traditonal concert may have taken awhile adjust, the unorthodox format worked well in revealing Messina's personality, her influences, her life story, and of course, a 15-song collection that showed off her booming voice.
  • Slow to adjust, the Huskies tumbled 14 points behind in the first 17 minutes. —  The News Tribune - Tacoma - Homepage
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  1. Obsolete French adjuster, from Old French ajoster, from Vulgar Latin *adiūxtāre, to put close to : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin iūxtā, near; see yeug- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from F. “adjuster, to adjust, set aptly, couch evenly, joyn handsomly, match fitly, dispose orderly, several things together” (Cotgrave), now ajuster (= Italian aggiustare, aggiostare = Portuguese Spanish ajustar), arrange, dispose, fit, etc., from Middle Latin adjustare, in form from Latin ad, to, + justus, just, but suggested by Old French ajuster, “ajouster, to add, adjoyn, set or put unto; also, increase, augment, eek, also as adjuster” (Cotgrave) (later Middle English ajusten, adjousten, add, put, suggest), French ajouter (see adjute), literally put side by side, from Middle Latin adjuxtare, put side by side, from Latin ad, to, + juxta, near, literally adjoining, from same root as jungere, join: see juxtaposition.
 

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