Word Meanings - READJUSTMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.

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• SECOND
  1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
• DIFFERENTIALLY
  In the way of differentiation.
• DIFFERENTLY
  In a different manner; variously.
• DIFFERENT
  1. Distinct; separate; not the same; other. "Five different churches." Addison. 2. Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different
• SECOND-CLASS
  Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.
• SECONDER
  One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.
• SECONDLY
  In the second place.
• SECOND-SIGHT
  The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision. he was seized with a fit of second-sight. Addison. Nor less availed
• DIFFERENTIA
  The formal or distinguishing part of the essence of a species; the characteristic attribute of a species; specific difference.
• SECOND-SIGHTED
  Having the power of second-sight. Addison.
• DIFFERENTIATE
  To obtain the differential, or differential coefficient, of; as, to differentiate an algebraic expression, or an equation. (more info) 1. To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to
• SECONDHAND
  1. Not original or primary; received from another. They have but a secondhand or implicit knowledge. Locke. 2. Not new; already or previously or used by another; as, a secondhand book, garment. At second hand. See Hand, n., 10.
• SECONDARY
  Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation , in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary. (more info) 1. Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.;
• SECOND-RATE
  Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. Dryden.
• ADJUSTMENT
  Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling. Bispham. 3. The operation of bringing all the parts of an instrument, as a microscope or telescope, into
• DIFFERENTIATOR
  One who, or that which, differentiates.
• SECONDARINESS
  The state of being secondary. Full of a girl's sweet sense of secondariness to the object of her love. Mrs. Oliphant.
• DIFFERENTIATION
  The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination. (more info) 1. The act of differentiating. Further investigation of the Sanskrit may lead to differentiation of
• DIFFERENTIAL
  Of or pertaining to a differential, or to differentials. (more info) 1. Relating to or indicating a difference; creating a difference; discriminating; special; as, differential characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate. For whom
• SECONDO
  The second part in a concerted piece.
• INDIFFERENTLY
  In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
• MISADJUSTMENT
  Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.
• READJUSTMENT
  A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.
• PREADJUSTMENT
  Previous adjustment.
• AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
  The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.
• THIRTY-SECOND
  Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is divided. Thirty-second note , the thirty-second part of a whole note; a demi-semiquaver.