anumberused tocorrectacalculation:Anadjustmentfactorof .90meansthat therateshownin thechartis 90% of thestandardrate.(Definition ofadjustment factorfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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adjustment factorTheadjustmentfactorcompensates for propagation speed being somewhat less than the speed of light.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The code encourages automatic daylight harvesting in secondary zones by awarding poweradjustmentfactor credits that can be applied to the lighting design.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The depth of the etching pattern is roughly on the order of the wavelength of light in the application, with anadjustmentfactorrelated to the substrate's index of refraction.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The sameadjustmentfactorwas applied to all traces in the series.From theCambridge English CorpusThe adjusted fishing effort is calculated by multiplying standard fishing effort by the technologicaladjustmentfactor.From theCambridge English CorpusPension benefits are computed by multiplying the number of 'earning points ', the pension value, and anadjustmentfactorfor an incomplete career.From theCambridge English CorpusThe first is a gradual increase in the 'normal retirement age ' which would further reduce the 'adjustmentfactor' in equation (18) if people would keep their current effective retirement ages.From theCambridge English CorpusThe benefit limit is 2% multiplied by anadjustmentfactorequal to the ratio of actual contributions to contributions assuming a 6 % contribution rate for all earnings.From theCambridge English CorpusConsequently, theadjustmentfactoronly deviates from one, if the individual retirement age deviates from the 'normal retirement age' of 65, which was introduced by the pension reform in 1992.From theCambridge English CorpusI am assuming that they pay 6s. rent, so as to leave out the rentadjustmentfactoraltogether.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/adjustment-factor##
