to adjust the brightness
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3.0
- phrasal verb
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ajustar el brillo
- The ability to adjust the brightness was appreciated when I was reading late at night and my husband was trying to fall asleep next to me.
- manually adjust the brightness
- adjust the brightness and contrast
Examples
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I can also adjust the brightness all with this little slider.
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I can do separate colors, I can adjust the brightness, I can even freestyle using the color wheel.
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In such a situation, you need to adjust the brightness and contrast of the image to make it visible.
Academic text (1999) -
Adjust the brightness and contrast in order to make the edge of the subject visible.
Academic text (1999) -
Only 10% of the participants adjusted the brightness and/or color of the screen as they were reading.
Academic text (2012) -
To that end, Hernandez suggested an app in which you can crop, adjust the brightness, and make other types of adjustments.
Blog text (26) -
You can't adjust the brightness with touch controls here on the MacBook keyboard, whereas this is what you get.
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When you're done adjusting the brightness, you push the little silver dial back in so it's out of your way and you don't have to deal with that dial.
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It also boasts an automatic light-sensing backlit keyboard that adjusts the brightness and allows ease of typing even under low light conditions.
Blog text (11) -
You can manually adjust the brightness slider to make the screen easier to read in different lighting conditions.
Synonyms
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2.4
To become less bright or make a light weaker
How Bright
Surface Forms
Morphology
adjust + the + brightness
The meaning 'change the level of light' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'adjust' (to change or modify) with 'brightness' (degree of light). This compositional verb + noun pattern follows normal English semantics and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Adjust the brightness comes from the simple image of turning a dial or sliding a bar to make a screen lighter or darker. Because adjust means to make a small change and brightness is how much light a screen gives, the phrase means 'to change the level of light on a screen'.