true up

1. 1.

   make level, square, balanced, or concentric

   “true up the cylinder of an engine”

   Synonymstrue

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Questions about true up

What does true up mean?

true up means "make level, square, balanced, or concentric".

What is another word for true up?

Close synonyms include true. 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 true up a common word?

true up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.