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adjustment
Overview of noun adjustment
The noun adjustment has 5 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (5) adjustment, accommodation, fitting -- (making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances)
2. (3) alteration, modification, adjustment -- (the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment))
3. (1) adjustment, registration, readjustment -- (the act of adjusting something to match a standard)
4. adaptation, adaption, adjustment -- (the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions))
5. allowance, adjustment -- (an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun adjustment
5 senses of adjustment
Sense 1
adjustment, accommodation, fitting
=> improvement, betterment, advance
=> transformation, transmutation, shift
=> change, alteration, modification
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
alteration, modification, adjustment
=> change
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
adjustment, registration, readjustment
=> calibration, standardization, standardisation
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
adaptation, adaption, adjustment
=> organic process, biological process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 5
allowance, adjustment
=> recompense
=> payment
=> cost
=> outgo, expenditure, outlay
=> financial loss
=> loss
=> transferred property, transferred possession
=> possession
=> relation
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun adjustment
5 senses of adjustment
Sense 1
adjustment, accommodation, fitting
=> shakedown
Sense 2
alteration, modification, adjustment
=> loosening, laxation
=> tightening
=> accommodation
=> adaptation
=> tune
Sense 3
adjustment, registration, readjustment
=> alignment
=> collimation
=> temperament
=> tune-up
=> synchronization, synchronisation, synchronizing, synchronising
=> voicing
Sense 4
adaptation, adaption, adjustment
=> acclimatization, acclimatisation, acclimation
=> dedifferentiation
=> domestication
=> specialization, specialisation, differentiation
Sense 5
allowance, adjustment
=> cost-of-living allowance
=> depreciation allowance
=> deduction, discount
=> seasonal adjustment
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun adjustment
5 senses of adjustment
Sense 1
adjustment, accommodation, fitting
=> improvement, betterment, advance
Sense 2
alteration, modification, adjustment
=> change
Sense 3
adjustment, registration, readjustment
=> calibration, standardization, standardisation
Sense 4
adaptation, adaption, adjustment
=> organic process, biological process
Sense 5
allowance, adjustment
=> recompense
Antonyms of noun adjustment
Member Holonyms of noun adjustment
Substance Holonyms of noun adjustment
Part Holonyms of noun adjustment
Member Meronyms of noun adjustment
Substance Meronyms of noun adjustment
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Meronyms of noun adjustment
Holonyms of noun adjustment
Attributes of noun adjustment
Derived Forms of noun adjustment
5 senses of adjustment
Sense 1
adjustment, accommodation, fitting
RELATED TO>(verb) adjust#3
=> adjust, conform, adapt
Sense 2
alteration, modification, adjustment
RELATED TO>(verb) adjust#4
=> adjust
Sense 3
adjustment, registration, readjustment
RELATED TO>(verb) adjust#1
=> adjust, set, correct
Sense 4
adaptation, adaption, adjustment
RELATED TO>(verb) adjust#3
=> adjust, conform, adapt
Sense 5
allowance, adjustment
RELATED TO>(verb) adjust#5
=> adjust
Domain of noun adjustment
Domain Terms of noun adjustment
Familiarity of noun adjustment
adjustment used as a noun is common (polysemy count =5)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun adjustment
5 senses of adjustment
Sense 1
adjustment, accommodation, fitting
> improvement, betterment, advance
=> revival, resurgence, revitalization, revitalisation, revivification
=> refinement, elaboration
=> adjustment, accommodation, fitting
=> conservation, preservation
=> recovery
Sense 2
alteration, modification, adjustment
> change
=> entail
=> about-face, volte-face, reversal, policy change
=> adulteration
=> move, relocation
=> filtration
=> reduction, simplification
=> decimalization, decimalisation
=> metrification, metrication
=> variation
=> turning
=> diversification, variegation
=> flux
=> switch, switching, shift
=> substitution, exchange, commutation
=> promotion
=> demotion
=> change of state
=> alteration, modification, adjustment
=> motion, movement, move
=> movement
=> motion, movement, move, motility
=> change of direction, reorientation
=> change of magnitude
=> change of integrity
=> conversion
=> updating
=> change of shape
=> satisfaction
=> nationalization, nationalisation
=> communization, communisation
=> secularization, secularisation
=> rollover
Sense 3
adjustment, registration, readjustment
> calibration, standardization, standardisation
=> tuning
=> adjustment, registration, readjustment
Sense 4
adaptation, adaption, adjustment
> organic process, biological process
=> adaptation, adaption, adjustment
=> agglutination
=> aging, ageing, senescence
=> anovulation
=> antisepsis, asepsis
=> assimilation, absorption
=> autoregulation
=> bacteriostasis
=> blooming, bloom
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> carbon cycle
=> catabolism, katabolism, dissimilation, destructive metabolism
=> cell division, cellular division
=> crossing over, crossover
=> defoliation
=> deossification
=> digestion
=> eburnation
=> ecchymosis
=> effacement
=> erythropoiesis
=> eutrophication
=> evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis
=> expression
=> extravasation
=> gastrulation
=> glycogenesis
=> growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
=> hematopoiesis, haematopoiesis, hemopoiesis, haemopoiesis, hemogenesis, haemogenesis, hematogenesis, haematogenesis, sanguification
=> heredity
=> humification
=> hypostasis, epistasis
=> implantation, nidation
=> inhibition
=> invagination, introversion, intussusception, infolding
=> involution
=> cytokinesis
=> karyokinesis
=> keratinization, keratinisation
=> Krebs cycle, Krebs citric acid cycle, citric acid cycle, tricarboxylic acid cycle
=> lymphopoiesis
=> lysogenization, lysogenisation
=> maturation, ripening, maturement
=> metabolism, metabolic process, metastasis
=> metamorphosis, metabolism
=> nitrogen cycle
=> nitrogen fixation
=> nondevelopment
=> nutrition
=> organification
=> ossification
=> ovulation
=> oxidative phosphorylation
=> parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
=> pathologic process, pathological process
=> perennation
=> preservation
=> quellung, quellung reaction
=> quickening
=> regeneration
=> regulation
=> replication
=> reproduction
=> resorption, reabsorption
=> ripening, aging, ageing
=> secretion, secernment
=> segregation
=> shedding, sloughing
=> summation
=> symphysis
=> synapsis
=> synizesis, synezesis
=> transcription
=> transduction
=> translation
=> protein folding, folding
=> translocation
=> translocation
=> transpiration
=> tumefaction
=> ulceration
=> vascularization, vascularisation
=> vesiculation, vesication, blistering
Sense 5
allowance, adjustment
> recompense
=> allowance, adjustment
=> compensation
Meronyms of noun adjustment
5 senses of adjustment
Holonyms of noun adjustment
Grep of noun adjustment
adjustment
maladjustment
readjustment
seasonal adjustment
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