adjustment

[In Fr. ajustement.] [ADJUST.] A. Ordinary Language: I. The act of adjusting, fitting to, rendering conformable to a certain standard; or reducing to order. 1. The act of fitting to ( lit. or fig ). the time which was absolutely required for the erection and adjustment of the instruments, with or without observatories over them."-Transit of Venus; Times, April 20, 1875. let us see what, by checking and balancing, adjustment of tooth and pinion, can be made of it."- Carlyle: 2. The act of arranging or coming to an agreement about. "The farther and clearer adjustment of this affair I am constrained to adjourn to the the l larger treatise." Woodward. II. The state of being adjusted, fitted, or adapted to. "As the prismatic camera was the instrument requiring least time for adjustment , so it was the one which could be employed for the longest period during the eclipse."-Transit of Venus; Times , April 20, 1875. III. Things adjusted, fitted or adapted to each other; the nature of the fitting itself. the various parts of the body are weights, and in the muscular adjustments are treated as such." -Todd and Bowman: Physiol. Anat ., ch. vii. adjustments."- Ibid . , ch. viii. the eye may be perfect in all its optical the mechanical adjustments of his frame are le favourable to preserve the standing posture than in the four-footed animal."- Ibid . , ch. iii. B. Technically . Marine Insurance: The ascertainment of the exact lo at sea on goods which have been insured, and the fixing the proportion which each underwriter is liable to pay.