Synonyms of the word

adjustment

• n. The action of adjusting something.
• n. The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration.
• n. The settling or balancing of a financial account.
• n. The behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
• n. The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim.

accommodation

• n. (chiefly Britain, usually a mass noun) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers…
• n. (physical) Adaptation or adjustment.
• n. (personal) Adaptation or adjustment.
• n. (countable, geology) The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
• n. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) Modifications to make one's way of speaking similar to others involved…

adaptation

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being adapted; adaption; adjustment.
• n. (uncountable, evolutionary theory) Adjustment to extant conditions: as, adjustment of a sense organ to…
• n. (countable) Something which has been adapted; variation.

adaption

• n. (proscribed) The act of fitting; adaptation.

advance

• v. To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
• v. (obsolete) To raise; to elevate.
• v. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
• v. To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
• v. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
• v. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
• v. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
• v. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
• v. (intransitive) To move forwards, to approach.
• v. (obsolete) To extol; to laud.
• n. A forward move; improvement or progression.
• n. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
• n. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
• n. (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
• adj. Completed before need or a milestone event.
• adj. Preceding.
• adj. Forward.

allowance

• n. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting.
• n. Acknowledgment.
• n. That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty,…
• n. a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
• n. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.
• n. (commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries.
• n. A child's allowance; pocket money.
• n. (minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing…
• n. (obsolete) approval; approbation.
• n. (obsolete) license; indulgence.
• v. To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

alteration

• n. The act of altering or making different.
• n. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.

betterment

• n. An improvement.
• n. (law) An improvement to a property that adds to its value.

calibration

• n. The act of calibrating something.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

fitting

• v. present participle of fit.
• v. (informal, US, with infinitive) Ready, preparing.
• adj. Ready, appropriate, or in keeping.
• n. A small detachable part of a device or machine.
• n. (engineering) A tube connector; a standardized connecting part of a piping system to attach sections of…
• n. The act of trying on clothes to inspect or adjust the fit.
• n. (manufacturing) The process of applying craft methods such as skilled filing to the making and assembling…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A domestic moveable piece of furniture, which can be taken along when moving out, US…
• n. (uncountable) The action or condition of having fits in the sense of seizures or convulsions.

improvement

• n. The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering.
• n. The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed;…
• n. The state of being improved; betterment; advance.
• n. Something which is improved.
• n. Increase; growth; progress; advance.
• n. (in the plural) Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc…
• n. (Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.

modification

• n. the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified.
• n. an alteration or adjustment to something.
• n. a change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.
• n. (linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language.
• n. (linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am => 'm in…

readjustment

• n. a second, or subsequent adjustment.

recompense

• n. An equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.
• n. That which compensates for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
• v. To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
• v. To give compensation for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
• v. (transitive) To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.

registration

• n. (uncountable) The act of signing up or registering for something.
• n. (countable) That which registers or makes something official, e.g. the form or paper that registers.
• n. (uncountable) Alignment, e.g. of colors or other elements in a printing process.
• n. (uncountable) The location where guests register, especially with a hotel.
• n. (music) The art of selecting and combining the stops or registers of an organ.

standardisation

• n. British spelling standard spelling of standardization.

standardization

• n. The process of complying (or evaluate by comparing) with a standard.
• n. The process of establishing a standard.