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SELF-ADJUSTING

Definition: SELF-ADJUSTING

SELF-ADJUSTING

Adjective

1. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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 clutchself-adjusting system. (references)

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Usage Frequency: SELF-ADJUSTING

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: SELF-ADJUSTING

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

   

Portuguese

  

auto-regulador, auto-compensador. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

reglaj automat. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sistema auto-adaptativo (adaptive control system, adaptive system, self-adjusting system, self-aligning system). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

självreglerande. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "SELF-ADJUSTING"

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)

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Anagrams: SELF-ADJUSTING

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SELF-ADJUSTING


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)

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)

&#83 &#69 &#76 &#70 &#45 &#65 &#68 &#74 &#85 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#78 &#71

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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