Definitions of Adaptation [ˌæd əpˈteɪ ʃən]

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Definition of 'Adaptation'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) adaptation
the act of adapting or the state of being adapted.

2.  adaptation
something produced by adapting:
an adaptation of a play for television.

3.  adaptation
any beneficial alteration in an organism resulting from natural selection by which the organism survives and multiplies in its environment.

4.  adaptation
a form or structure modified to fit a changed environment.

5.  adaptation
the ability of a species to survive in a particular ecological niche, esp. because of alterations of form or behavior brought about through natural selection.

6.  adaptation
the decrease in response of sensory receptor organs, as those of vision or touch, to changed, constantly applied environmental conditions.

7.  adaptation
the regulating by the pupil of the quantity of light entering the eye.

8.  adaptation
a slow, usu. unconscious modification of individual or collective behavior in adjusting to cultural surroundings.

Etymology: (1600–10; < ML adaptātiō < L adaptā(re) to adapt)

Definition of 'Adaptation'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) adaptation, version
a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form
"the play is an adaptation of a short novel"

2. (noun) adaptation, adaption, adjustment
the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)

3. (noun) adaptation
(physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)

Definition of 'Adaptation'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Adaptation
the act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness

2. (noun) Adaptation
the result of adapting; an adapted form

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