The phrase "adjust the distance" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to changing or modifying the space between two points or objects.
Example: "To improve the fit of the furniture, you may need to adjust the distance between the chairs and the table."
Alternatives: "modify the distance" or "change the distance."
They can overcome those challenges by understanding the common thread that links them and learning to either adjust the distance or substitute one type for another.
The first layer enables to adjust the distance between the silica nanoparticles of the upper layer, leading to a tuneable and controlled final roughness.
Aaron Alexis used a remote control to adjust the distance between his rifle and the cardboard cutouts – human silhouettes suspended from an electric rail on the ceiling at Sharpshooters, a gun store in an industrial park in northern Virginia.
If they seem to be incinerating, or not much is happening at all (you should hear cooking noises within just a couple of minutes), adjust the distance between the rack and the heat source.
Tesla allows the driver to adjust the distance the system maintains from the car in front, from essentially tailgating to up to seven "car lengths" away, although it actually increases that distance the faster you go.
Researchers from Israel and the United States found that the bats can widen or shrink the sonar beam they send out, and adjust the distance the beam travels by changing the loudness of their clicks.
This can be accomplished in two ways: by adjusting the distance or substituting one type of distance for another.
Through adjusting the distance between microphones, the facility's effective measurement frequency can be changed.
Auto-focus works by continually measuring and adjusting the distance of the camera lens from the subject in front of the camera.
Using data analysis, we adjusted the distance from the collar to the first button on shirts for men with large chests.
In the measurement, by gradually adjusting the distance between the objective and the plasmonic lens, we are able to examine the optical intensity distribution at different z locations along the propagation direction to determine the focal plane.
