The phrase "adjust small" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to suggest making a minor adjustment, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "Please adjust small settings on the device to improve its performance."
Alternatives: "make minor adjustments" or "tweak slightly".
They are presented with a monster, stitched together from arcane procedures traditionally used to adjust small-fry rules.
Precision tuning is achieved by inserting bits of wool or silk between the strings and lower bridge and by adjusting small beads attached to the strings.
Wikipedia defines a spudger as a "wiring [tool] used for poking or adjusting small wires or components, generally in the electronics or telecommunications industries", while I define it as "an awesome name for the totally killer rock band I'll eventually create".
Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian has been unpacking her fragile artworks and adjusting small pieces of mirror at the Guggenheim Museum all day.
PAMR was a close second, but its performance suffered when batch size was small; only ComBat performed robustly when adjusting small batches.
The occlusal contact area of the implant had a tendency to be adjusted smaller than the natural tooth by a dental technician and a dentist.
Nominal p-values (i.e. not adjusted) smaller than 10−4 were deemed significant, and visualized as pink edges with thickness indicating significance level (proportional to −log (p-value)) (Figure 7).
Burnham and Anderson [66] advise an n/k ratio of ∼10 for noisy data, but also suggest that small sample size corrections in the AICc calculation will correctly adjust for small sample size and high numbers of predictors.
"Economic corrections are getting smaller," he says, because better supply-chain management means firms can more easily adjust to small changes in demand.
That would not be a huge problem if those forced to adjust are small.
