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adaptation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun adaptation has 3 senses
- adaptation(n = noun.communication) version - a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form; "the play is an adaptation of a short novel" is a kind of piece of writing, writing, written material
- adaptation(n = noun.process) adaption, adjustment - the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions); Array has particulars: acclimation, acclimatisation, acclimatization, dedifferentiation, domestication, differentiation, specialisation, specialization
- adaptation(n = noun.act) Array - (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light); Array has particulars: dark adaptation, light adaptation
has particulars: modernization, versification
is a kind of biological process, organic process
Derived form verb adapt2
is a kind of adjustment, alteration, modification
CIDE DICTIONARY
adaptation, n. [Cf. F. adaptation, LL. adaptatio.].
- The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. Erskine. [1913 Webster]
- The result of adapting; an adapted form. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
adaptation, n.
1 the act or process of adapting or being adapted.
2 a thing that has been adapted.
3 Biol. the process by which an organism or species becomes suited to its environment.
1 the act or process of adapting or being adapted.
2 a thing that has been adapted.
3 Biol. the process by which an organism or species becomes suited to its environment.
Etymology
F f. LL adaptatio -onis (as ADAPT)
THESAURUS
adaptation
Nachtmusik, about-face, absolute music, accommodation, accord, accordance, acquiescence, adaption, adjusting, adjustment, agreement, air varie, aleatory, aleatory music, alignment, alteration, amelioration, apostasy, arrangement, assimilation, attunement, bearings, betterment, biological evolution, break, chamber music, chamber orchestra, change, change of heart, changeableness, coaptation, compliance, composition, conditioning, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity, consistency, constructive change, continuity, conventionality, conversion, coordination, correspondence, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, descant, deterioration, deviation, difference, discontinuity, disorientation, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, electronic music, enablement, equipment, etude, exercise, fit, fitting, flexibility, flip-flop, furnishing, genesis, gradual change, harmonization, harmony, horotely, improvement, incidental music, instrumental music, instrumentation, integration, intonation, invention, keeping, line, malleability, melioration, mitigation, modification, modifying, modulation, natural selection, nocturne, obedience, observance, ontogenesis, ontogeny, opus, orchestration, orientation, orthodoxy, overthrow, phrasing, phylogenesis, phylogeny, physiogenesis, physiogeny, piece, pliancy, preparation, production, program music, qualification, radical change, re-creation, realignment, reconcilement, reconciliation, redesign, reform, reformation, regulation, remaking, renewal, reshaping, resolution, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, ricercar, score, setting, shift, solution, sonata, sonatina, squaring, strictness, string orchestra, string quartet, study, sudden change, suiting, suspension, switch, synchronization, tachytely, theme and variations, timing, tone painting, total change, traditionalism, transcription, transition, trio, tuning, turn, turnabout, uniformity, upheaval, variation, variety, violent change, work, worsening
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