Synonym: adaption, adjustment, version. Similar words: adaptable, adapt, adapt to, adaptive, proportional representation, degradation, captivation, station. Meaning: [‚ædæp'teɪʃn] n. 1. a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form 2. the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions) 3. (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light).
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31. Traditional design is a complex process of adaptation and assimilation in a perpetual act of gestation.
32. Where a film adaptation could ventilate the humid bachelor atmosphere of Hornby's novel is in giving opportunities for women.
33. This involves not only cognitive development but also a parallel affective development and adaptation to the adult life.
34. Dolphins have an ingenious adaptation to cope with eating under water.
35. It is a highly successful adaptation of an advertisement which was first shown back in the early 1980s in Britain.
36. Its film adaptation was a big hit and won five Oscars, including best picture.
37. It is through this mutual adaptation of desire that fusion is born.
38. The caddis house, nobody could doubt, is an adaptation, evolved by Darwinian selection.
39. The schemata of the adult evolve from the schemata of the child through adaptation and organization.
40. No housing department had a policy on identifying vacant properties with adaptation potential.
41. Some of the cellular mechanisms for adaptation which underlie this latter process are now known.
42. Laying and distributing the eggs in small batches is a special adaptation to these hot desert conditions.
43. Unless there is a corresponding process of critical appraisal, there can be no adaptation,(http://sentencedict.com/adaptation.html) no adjustment to change.
44. There was a significant increase in accuracy after adaptation in both cases; this causes a contradiction.
45. How do we explain this variation, and how do we explain the transmission of this adaptation from one generation to another?
46. Who knows, we might soon see the big screen's first cereal box adaptation.
47. The results also show a significant difference in accuracy before and after adaptation when wearing prisms.
48. But once adaptation to the new conditions had been achieved, Darwin assumed that evolution would come to a halt.
49. The morphologists' interpretation of evolution invoked adaptation only in the most abstract way.
50. In addition, a decrease in size seems to have accompanied adaptation to an exclusively arboreal life.
51. The central relationship in the novel between Serena and Stella is emblematic of the contrast between adaptation to convention and rebellion.
52. There is one other bizarre adaptation used by the female cuckoo in laying her eggs.
53. She was responsible for the adaptation of the book "The Witches of Eastwick" into a stage play.
54. This is an adaptation to survive predation from the many animals that hunt them - not least man for the cooking pot!
55. But they differ about just how this adaptation takes place.
56. The three generations before the revolution of 1789 saw more of the same process of slow institutional adaptation.
57. The censors had also insisted on a cut in his stage adaptation of Anna Karenina.
58. Any adaptation in a male which enables him to copulate with more females will be strongly favoured by natural selection.
59. It, however, seems necessary to carry out further research into adaptation to prismatic distortion in order to isolate the exact cause.
60. Software can form part of an organisation's assets, but may need continual adaptation and enhancement in order to keep it effective.
More similar words: adaptable, adapt, adapt to, adaptive, proportional representation, degradation, captivation, station, mutation, incantation, stationery, gestation, annotation, vegetation, dictation, agitation, denotation, invitation, limitation, habitation, stationary, levitation, plantation, hesitation, connotation, exultation, sanitation, exhortation, affectation, lamentation.