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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjustable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
fully
▪ The pouches are sewn on to 2in wide webbing, which is fully adjustable to fit from 30in to 46in girth.
▪ The bridge is interesting, too, with six fully adjustable knife-edge saddles, one for each pair of strings.
▪ While most budget bikes make do with just pre-load adjustment, Yamaha has given the Fazer fully adjustable suspension.
▪ Both, as you'd expect, are fully adjustable.
▪ Smoothing planes are available with smooth or corrugated bases, and the blade is fully adjustable.
■ NOUN
peg
▪ The dollar was therefore the key currency under the adjustable peg system.
▪ What, then, has happened to the dollar and gold, the two key reserve assets under the adjustable peg?
▪ Another major problem for the adjustable peg system was the liquidity arrangements discussed in Section 8.2.2.
▪ Accordingly managed floating was generally adopted when the adjustable peg was abandoned.
▪ The facilities have survived the adjustable peg system and are still in operation today.
▪ A major problem arose from the way in which the adjustable peg system was operated.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an adjustable desk lamp
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An adjustable plate stand is $ 33.
▪ He had hoped to switch from a 8. 25 percent adjustable to a 15-year fixed under 7. 5 percent.
▪ Meanwhile, the average adjustable mortgage rate rose to 5. 48 percent from 5. 45 percent a week earlier.
▪ Some one had brought the adjustable lectern and set it up perfectly but not bothered to find out the heights of the speakers.
▪ The rudder pedals are adjustable on both sides.
▪ These various elements appear in adjustable windows; highlight a word or phrase, and the stuff in each module changes.
▪ Unlike most modern packs, the Big Top has an adjustable hip belt instead of an adjustable shoulder harness.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adjustable

Adjustable \Ad*just"a*ble\, a. Capable of being adjusted.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
adjustable

1775, from adjust + -able. Related: Adjustably; adjustability.\n

Wiktionary
adjustable

a. capable of being adjusted

WordNet
adjustable
  1. adj. capable of being changed so as to match or fit; "adjustable seat belts"

  2. capable of being regulated; "adjustable interest rates"

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "adjustable".

In detecting a distant object, his system blinked waves, sending them not through space but into something else, in and out, in and out, on timed adjustable intervals, longer blinks to detect large objects, shorter and shorter as the search narrowed down.

In it Mrs Musgrove ordered an ejaculatory and vibrating dildo of adjustable proportions, the bottom half of a plastic man complete with organs, and finally a studded rubber pad with battery attached which called itself a clitoral stimulator.

The light above her was from a bank of lumes, extending from the ceiling on an adjustable arm.

SPIRIT IRONIC Yea, the dull peoples and the Dynasts both, Those counter-castes not oft adjustable, Interests antagonistic, proud and poor, Have for the nonce been bonded by a wish To overthrow thee.

The thing was a pantograph, an adjustable device used by draftsmen for copying plans.

Dushau gravity in a comfortably appointed interior, fifteen red multispecies reclining chairs, adjustable light and gravity at each, ample personal cargo stowage, and a drop-platform to a cargo bay below the cabin.

This furniture, which provides a seat adjustable for height, having a back rest also adjustable for height, and a desk which is likewise provided with a vertical adjustment, supplies all essential hygienic requirements.

It had many adjustable plastic cranks and was made of swoopy red plastic lozenges.

Those warheads were designed for variable yield, adjustable to suit the tactical circumstances, and Colonel Uran Na-Lythan had ordered them set for maximum yield.

Dushau gravity in a comfortably appointed interior, fifteen red multispecies reclining chairs, adjustable light and gravity at each, ample personal cargo stowage, and a drop-platform to a cargo bay below the cabin.

Spit on me: clothing for every kind of weather, adjustable suspenders, bounceback man walks on leaden soles, bald on top, hollow within, outside bedecked with remnants: red brown black -- spit on me!

Daryl delighted in citing large, powerful four-door sedans with all the amenitiesQair conditioning, power windows, cellular phone, adjustable steering column, tape/CD/AM-FM stereo entertainment system, leather upholstery, dual overhead camshafts, tinted glass all aroundQwhile mocking me for my continued insistence on ticketing nothing larger than mopeds and bicycles.

Except for two adjustable lamps, one over the desk and the other over the repeater console, the room was illuminated by coved radiating tubes along the intersection of ceiling and walls, a standard practice in all of the galleries, tunnels, and cells of the Hive.

Except for two adjustable lamps, one over the desk and the other over the repeater console, the room was illuminated by coved radiating tubes along the intersection of ceiling and walls, a standard practice in all of the galleries, tunnels, and cells of the Hive.

Would it be okay to sell each of them a building lot for a hundred and fifty thousand dollars, with a very small down payment and an adjustable rate mortgage?