Adjustment vs Consistence - What's the difference?
adjustment | consistence |
a small change; a minor correction; a modification
The behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
(archaic) The physical quality which is given by the degree of firmness, solidity, density, and viscosity; consistency.
* Arbuthnot
The staying together, or remaining in close relation, of non-physical things.
(obsolete) Standing still; quiescence; state of rest.
(obsolete) The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity.
* Francis Bacon
* Jeremy Taylor
(obsolete) That which stands together as a united whole; a combination.
* Milton
As nouns the difference between adjustment and consistence
is that adjustment is a small change; a minor correction; a modification while consistence is (archaic) the physical quality which is given by the degree of firmness, solidity, density, and viscosity; consistency.adjustment
English
Noun
(en noun)- The credit card company made an adjustment to my account to waive the late fee.
- When Jim graduated, he found adjustment to the working world difficult.
Synonyms
* change * correction * modificationSee also
* (wikipedia)consistence
English
Noun
- Let the expressed juices be boiled into the consistence of a sirup.
- Her performance has lacked consistence over the last year.
- This composer's musical work is of extraordinary consistence .
- Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence .
- We are as water, weak, and of no consistence .
- The church of God, as meaning whole consistence of orders and members.
