different between adjust vs equalize

English

Etymology

From Middle English ajusten, borrowed from Middle French adjuster, or Old French, from Latin ad (“to, up to, towards”) + iustus (“correct, proper, exact”). Probably influenced in sense by Old French ajouster (cf. modern ajouter), from Vulgar Latin *adiuxt?re, from Latin iuxta. The Middle English originally meant "to correct, remedy" in the late 14th century, and was reborrowed from Middle French in the early 17th century. According to another view on the etymology, the word was actually derived from Old French ajouster and then supposedly later influenced by folk etymology from Latin iustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d??st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Verb

adjust (third-person singular simple present adjusts, present participle adjusting, simple past and past participle adjusted)

1. (transitive) To modify.

2. (transitive) To improve or rectify.

3. (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
4. (intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.

Synonyms

• (to modify something): change, edit, modify, set

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• Adjustment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• udjats

English

Alternative forms

• equalise (non-Oxford British spelling)
• æqualize (obsolete)

Etymology

From equal +? -ize.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i?kw?la?z/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ikw??la?z/

Verb

equalize (third-person singular simple present equalizes, present participle equalizing, simple past and past participle equalized)

1. (transitive) To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.

   to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes

   • 1815, William Wordsworth, Epitaph 3

     One poor moment can suffice / To equalize the lofty and the low.

   • 1828, Richard Whately, Elements of Rhetoric

     No system of instruction will completely equalize natural powers.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To be equal to; to equal, to rival. [16th-19th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.9:

     But a third kingdom yet is to arise / Out of the Trojans scattered ofspring, / That in all glory and great enterprise, / Both first and second Troy shall dare to equalise.
3. (intransitive, sports) To make the scoreline equal by scoring points. [from 20th c.]
4. (underwater diving) To clear the ears to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure by letting air enter along the Eustachian tubes.
5. (category theory) Said of a morphism: to pre-compose with each of a parallel pair of morphisms so as to yield the same composite morphism.
6. (signal processing) To adjust the balance between frequency components within an electronic signal.

Derived terms

• equalizer, equaliser
• equalization, equalisation

Translations