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).
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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61. A key adaptation in pied flycatchers, therefore, is the timing of their breeding season.
62. The script is an artful adaptation of a novel by Rosa Guy.
63. Unlike Big Ideas that beget standardized commodities, these products undergo a continuous process of incremental change and adaptation.
64. And is natural selection the only factor to account for the observed apparent improvement in biological adaptation and complexity?
65. It was not a retrofit, though it was more of an adaptation of a copying lathe than an original design.
66. Adaptation to a culture does not mean automatically assuming all the values of the culture.
67. Tranquilizers tend to blunt their responses and slow their adaptation to the problem.
68. Adaptation was expected to be the result of a change in visual perception or the proprioceptive sense of the arm.
69. So technology that builds the boats leads directly to biological adaptation and evolution.
70. Adaptation of existing dwellings Only three authorities had a specific policy on adaptations to council dwellings.
71. True adaptation to society comes automatically when the adolescent reformer attempts to put his ideas to work.
72. Adaptation begins at birth with the exercise or sensorimotor reflexes.
73. Unilateral respect relationships in adolescence can postpone adaptation to the real world and integration into society.
74. Apart from mitigation, these actions can include some adaptation and response measures, preparation of National Communications,(sentencedict.com/adaptation.html) and capacity building.
75. Those that were able to acclimatize might have survived long enough for hereditary processes to be invoked and adaptation to occur.
76. Equally disappointing is the latest stage adaptation of a Roald Dahl story for children at Christmas.
77. It does this through a special adaptation that allows it to adjust the concentration of its blood.
78. The fish possesses a further adaptation to enhance its accuracy: binocular vision.
79. This supports the hypothesis that adaptation is due to visual change.
80. He is wincing in a 1940s fleapit auditorium where they are showing a crass adaptation of one of his books.
81. We need to accept only that the change in snail shell is a fluke adaptation.
82. It is simply that adaptation and ancestry can explain what adaptation alone can not.
83. The discipline became dominated by two new theoretical models: first a functionalist theory of synchronic adaptation, and later structuralism.
84. New ecological approaches sought to help us understand human adaptation to the environment.
85. The adaptation work should help to overcome or remove any obstacles that prevent you from enjoying the use of your present facilities.
86. It explores the inter-relationships between official policy and professional practice and their adaptation to each other.
87. Confirmation of this adaptation of the V-domain interface in cell-adhesion interactions now awaits direct structural data for the ligand or the complex.
88. Our company's adaptation to shifting consumer tastes has been a great success.
89. One explanation is that dreaming is an essential part of our adaptation to the demands of the world we face.
90. Biochemical Adaptation in Parasites Parasites - from protozoa to helminths - occupy many environments that have markedly different physical and chemical characteristics.
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.