Adjust

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system.

II. Adjust ·vt To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope.

III. Adjust ·vt To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.

IV. Adjust ·vt To make exact; to Fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.

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