Used in a Sentence

adjusting

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for adjusting.

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You can make him do things that he thinks are his own ideas, just by adjusting the input parameters.

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Adjustment.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

Adjustment.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for adjusting.

noun

Adjustment.

Example sentences

1

You can make him do things that he thinks are his own ideas, just by adjusting the input parameters.

2

The pilot would not be manually adjusting the radar scan position during a a visual join-up.

3

There's a very real downside: Massive (relative to just adjusting a value in memory) overhead.

4

If we bump the office temperature 5* without adjusting the dress code, I end up sweaty and miserable.

5

Certainly you can be an unemployed programmer but adjusting locations/skills can greatly improve circumstances.

6

When I'm not actually setting a base font size and instead adjusting things relative to the browser's default.

7

ExpressJS is pretty interesting with its nested routers, middleware, request handling function as the app, and adjusting the prototype on each request.

8

They've just pondered along adjusting to their environmental stimuli like everything else does.

9

This is basically the market adjusting to what it should have been.

10

Software market is just adjusting with cetain models taking a financial hit.

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As for distractions...are you such a precious princess that someone adjusting the light level or bumping into your chair completely removes your ability to be productive?

12

This called for the same reaction as would adjusting speed to match any car that took their foot off the accelerator; the Jeep didn't even brake!

Quote examples

1

The advertisers are adjusting their "attacks" (quite a harsh word) because the same marketing doesn't work forever.

2

From the article you link to: "Overall, blacks were killed at three times the rate of whites or other minorities when adjusting by the population of the census tracts where the shootings occurred."

3

"Members of this year’s graduating class left their campuses owing an average of $35,051, about twice the levels borne by their counterparts two decades earlier (after adjusting for inflation)."

4

We wasted time adjusting code to meet new standards, adding tests to things we knew we were changing, adding scalability to places we had no scalability issues with (yet), adding new interfaces/code in places where something "might" happen etc.

Proper noun examples

1

Adjusting the rules regulating markets sounds a lot like governments picking winners, which they are notoriously bad at.

2

Adjusting the autovacuum settings by table will give you finer control over the postgresql.conf parameters to better match the workload for specific tables, as well.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use adjusting in a sentence?

You can make him do things that he thinks are his own ideas, just by adjusting the input parameters.

What does adjusting mean?

Adjustment.

What part of speech is adjusting?

adjusting is commonly used as noun.