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Definition: SELF-ADJUSTING |
SELF-ADJUSTINGAdjective1. Capable of assuming a desired position or condition with relation to other parts, under varying circumstances, without requiring to be adjusted by hand; -- said of a piece in machinery. |
Date "SELF-ADJUSTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
Crosswords: SELF-ADJUSTING |
| English words defined with "SELF-ADJUSTING": Self-adjusting bearing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SELF-ADJUSTING": pneumatic friction clutch ♦ self-adjusting system. (references) |
| "SELF-ADJUSTING" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SELF-ADJUSTING" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SELF-ADJUSTING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 自动调整. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zelfaanpassend systeem (adaptive control system, adaptive system, self-adjusting system, self-aligning system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | système auto-adaptatif (self-adjusting system, self-aligning system, self-organizing system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | anpassungsfähiges System (adaptive control system, adaptive system, self-adjusting system, self-aligning system), adaptives System (adaptive control system, adaptive system, self-adjusting system, self-aligning system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αυτορυθμιζόμενοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | dapat mengatur sendiri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sistema di controllo autoregolantesi (adaptive control system, adaptive system, self-adjusting system, self-aligning system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elf-adjustingsay auto-regulador, auto-compensador. (various references) reglaj automat. (various references) sistema auto-adaptativo (adaptive control system, adaptive system, self-adjusting system, self-aligning system). (various references) självreglerande. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "SELF-ADJUSTING" (pronounced 'Self`-ad*just"ing'): Fleming, Loring, Outing, Phasing, Plaiding, Pontooning, Priesting, Randing, Rebiting, Redoubting, Reeding, Rinking, Ruching, Safe-keeping, Sarking, Sea-roving, Seining, Self-abasing, Self-applying, Self-approving, Self-consuming, Self-depending, Self-devouring, self-explaining, Self-healing, Self-imparting, Self-knowing, Self-neglecting, Self-reproaching, Self-reproving, Shafting, Shamoying, Sheading, Sheeling, Shieling, Shoading, Shroving, Siling, Skylarking, Sleighing, Slicking, Slocking, Smithing, Snying, Speeching, Splining, Steading, Steening, Steining, Stenting. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-g-i-j-l-n-s-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: defaulting, faultiness, feudalists. | |
-4 letters: adjusting, adultness, dauntless, deflating, desalting, feudalist, fluidness, gaudiness, insulated, insulates, jangliest, jungliest, lassitude, sandflies, slangiest, sludgiest, stagefuls, steadings, stealings, sulfating, sustained, tasseling. | |
-5 letters: alunites, assigned, audients, daftness, dealings, defaults, defusing, delating, destains, diluents, dinguses, dualists, duelists, dungiest, eastings, elastins, fangless, fastings, fatigued, fatigues, fatlings, faulting, feasting, feltings, feudists, finagled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 45 4C 46 2D 41 44 4A 55 53 54 49 4E 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000101 01001100 01000110 00101101 01000001 01000100 01001010 01010101 01010011 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S E L F - A D J U S T I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0045 004C 0046 002D 0041 0044 004A 0055 0053 0054 0049 004E 0047 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5339464015353844555354434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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