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Definition of Adjustment

Adjustment

  1. The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.
  2. Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling.
  3. The operation of bringing all the parts of an instrument, as a microscope or telescope, into their proper relative position for use; the condition of being thus adjusted; as, to get a good adjustment; to be in or out of adjustment.

Adjustment Quotations

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Ambrose Bierce

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
James Allen

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
R. D. Laing

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert Spencer
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Adjustment Translations

adjustment in Dutch is afstelling, instelling
adjustment in German is Berichtigung, Anordnung {f}
adjustment in Italian is adattamento
adjustment in Norwegian is instilling
adjustment in Portuguese is ajuste
adjustment in Spanish is adaptacion

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