Optimize vs Adjust - What's the difference?
optimize | adjust |
(originally) To act optimistically or as an optimist.
To make (something) optimal.
To make (something) more efficient, such as a computer program.
To become optimal.
To modify.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To improve or rectify.
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, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)
To settle an insurance claim.
To change to fit circumstances.
In lang=en terms the difference between optimize and adjust
is that optimize is to become optimal while adjust is to change to fit circumstances.As verbs the difference between optimize and adjust
is that optimize is (originally|intransitive) to act optimistically or as an optimist while adjust is to modify.optimize
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Alternative forms
* optimise (UK )Verb
(optimiz)Synonyms
* (to make optimal) perfect * (to make more efficient) enhance, hone, improve, perfectadjust
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Verb
(en verb)A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
citation, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}