adjust
verb (used with object)
to change (something) so that it fits, corresponds, or conforms; adapt; accommodate.
self-adjusting
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a word derived from
adjust.
Example Sentences
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If wholly self-adjusting lenses emerge then safety will become "a much more serious business", he adds.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2025
By simultaneously targeting two key brain structures and using a novel self-adjusting device, the team showed that they can efficiently target and improve disruptive symptoms caused by the movement disorder.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024
The idea of self-adjusting international markets, detached from societal regulation and oversight, implied a bleak utopia indeed.
From Nature ● Dec. 12, 2019
Like the Mezes, the strap on the NightHawks and NightOwls is self-adjusting: it extends only as much as is absolutely needed to seat the headphones atop your head.
From The Verge ● Jul. 6, 2017
And this is the more likely to happen, as there is a self-adjusting power in the variations of the exchange itself.
From Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill
