adjustment factor
noun[C]
ukusanumberused tocorrectacalculation:
Anadjustmentfactorof .90meansthat therateshownin thechartis 90% of thestandardrate.
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adjustment factor
Theadjustmentfactorcompensates for propagation speed being somewhat less than the speed of light.
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This 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.
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This 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.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The sameadjustmentfactorwas applied to all traces in the series.
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The adjusted fishing effort is calculated by multiplying standard fishing effort by the technologicaladjustmentfactor.
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Pension benefits are computed by multiplying the number of 'earning points ', the pension value, and anadjustmentfactorfor an incomplete career.
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The 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.
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The benefit limit is 2% multiplied by anadjustmentfactorequal to the ratio of actual contributions to contributions assuming a 6 % contribution rate for all earnings.
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Consequently, 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.
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I am assuming that they pay 6s. rent, so as to leave out the rentadjustmentfactoraltogether.
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