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Definition of Adjusting
1. adjust [v] - See also: adjust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adjusting
Literary usage of Adjusting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"REPAIRING AND Adjusting: Overhauling a Car. Cleaning and Lubricating. ...
Adjusting and Timing of Valves. Bearings; constructions, adjustment and repairs. ..."
2. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"Adjusting the Levels. -— The levels attached to the base may be tested by the
usual method of reversing each level end- for-end. This may be done either on ..."
3. Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session by United States Congress. House (1837)
"4) entitled "An act for adjusting the remaining claims upon the late deposite
banks," and found the same to be truly enrolled ; when The Speaker signed the ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Patents for Useful Inventions in the United States by George Ticknor Curtis, Thomas Webster (1854)
"But, on the other hand, a claim to a principle, to-be carried into effect by any
means, without describing an appli- the application of a self-adjusting ..."
5. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1893)
"The method of adjusting an equatorial here discussed is one which could be ...
The first thing to do in adjusting an equatorial is to adjust the finder. ..."
6. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1910)
"... as newt and desire to protect hy Let- (era Patent, la— 2. in an aeroplane
device, a carred wing, with meana for adjusting ita rear portion ..."
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