The phrase "adjusted the distance" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to changing or modifying the space or gap between two points or objects.
Example: "The engineer adjusted the distance between the two sensors to improve accuracy."
Alternatives: "modified the spacing" or "altered the gap".
The NWCFs were adjusted the distance at 6 cm and depth at 3.5 cm.
The input voltage of the equipment is 800∼3000 V, the flash duration is 15∼20 μs, the lighting frequency and condensation rate can be adjusted, the distance between light and test specimen is 0∼120 mm.
It's a little like driving a car: One can drive an automobile without adjusting the seat, but most of us drive better if we have adjusted the distance of the seat from the steering wheel and the height of the seat to permit the best view of the road.
So we set the rotation angle to 360*n (n = 1.1 and n = 1.6), the line width of the antenna to 1 μm, and the spacing to 2.5 μm (n = 1.1) and 1.4 μm (n = 1.6) and adjusted the distance (i, indicated in Fig. 1c with a partial enlarged drawing) between the antenna port on the bridge leg and the connection between the bridge leg and the sensitive area.
Air pollution exposure data was collected from monitoring station networks and adjusted the distance between the participants' home address and main roads, using the traffic loads to determine the roads' categories.
Auto-focus works by continually measuring and adjusting the distance of the camera lens from the subject in front of the camera.
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.
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.
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.
Tom Pietrzak, the driver, said that for highway driving, he adjusts the distance between the trailer and the cab to just a few inches so that there is little gap between the back of the fairing and the front of the trailer.
