readjustment

1. 1.

   the act of adjusting again (to changed circumstances)

   Broaderadjustment
2. 2.

   the act of adjusting something to match a standard

   Synonymsadjustmentregistration

   Broadercalibration

   Narroweralignmentcollimationtemperamenttune-upsynchronizationvoicing

Other forms of readjustment

plural

readjustments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about readjustment

What does readjustment mean?

readjustment means "the act of adjusting again (to changed circumstances)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in readjustment?

readjustment has 4 syllables: re-ad-just-ment. The stress falls on "just". In IPA it is /ɹiəˈdʒʌstmənt/.

What is another word for readjustment?

Close synonyms include adjustment, registration. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is readjustment a common word?

readjustment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with readjustment?

1 word rhymes with readjustment. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.