Definitions for adaptation

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adaptation ad·ap·ta·tion

Spelling: [ad-uh p-tey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌæd əpˈteɪ ʃən/

Adaptation is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 278 anagrams from letters in adaptation (aaadinoptt).

Definitions for adaptation

noun

1. the act of adapting.
2. the state of being adapted; adjustment.
3. something produced by adapting:
4. Biology. any alteration in the structure or function of an organism or any of its parts that results from natural selection and by which the organism becomes better fitted to survive and multiply in its environment. a form or structure modified to fit a changed environment. the ability of a species to survive in a particular ecological niche, especially because of alterations of form or behavior brought about through natural selection.
5. Physiology. the decrease in response of sensory receptor organs, as those of vision, touch, temperature, olfaction, audition, and pain, to changed, constantly applied, environmental conditions.
6. Ophthalmology. the regulating by the pupil of the quantity of light entering the eye.
7. Also, adaption [uh-dap-shuh n] /əˈdæp ʃən/ (Show IPA). Sociology. a slow, usually unconscious modification of individual and social activity in adjustment to cultural surroundings.

Origin of adaptation

1600-10; Medieval Latin adaptātiōn- (stem of adaptātiō), equivalent to Latin adaptāt(us) (past participle of adaptāre to adapt; see Examples for adaptation

In all fairness, too, Marshall has at the ready pretty rational reasons for almost every change he made in this adaptation.

Maggie Smith was Desdemona, the victim of circumstance, in the 1965 Othello adaptation.

This Jack Clayton adaptation of The Turn of the Screw is one of the rare pictures that does justice to Henry James.

In the discovery and adaptation of the latter lay the whole problem.

The purpose of education is "adaptation,—with the retention of adaptability."

I asked the Smith brothers to do an adaptation and they did an adaptation of The Death of Jim Loney, another book by Jim Welch.

Now, our process is only an adaptation of these cosmic rays.

Therefore we ask for your opinions on the question of the power of adaptation in fecundity.

It has no power of adaptation, but uses the same words for all.

The Fault in Our Stars is an adaptation of John Green's beloved YA novel, helmed by two relative unknowns.