# adaptive
## English
### Etymology

From adapt +‎ -ive.

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /əˈdæp.tɪv/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Adjective

adaptive (comparative more adaptive, superlative most adaptive)
* Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.
    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it issued a final rule allowing what’s called “adaptive driving beam headlights” on new vehicles. It will go into effect when published in the Federal Register in the next few days.
** 1859, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species:The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent.
** 1896, C. Lloyd Morgan, On Modification and Variation:That variation of germinal origin is a fact in organic nature is admitted on all hands, and that some variations are adaptive is also unquestioned.
** 2024, NTSB, Highway Investigation Report, HIR-24-05:Advanced vehicle technologies, including automatic emergency braking and adaptive cruise control, were available as standard equipment for this truck-tractor; however, the carrier opted not to purchase these systems. We found that the collision may have been avoided or its severity lessened had these systems been installed on the truck-tractor. Because commercial vehicle customers can elect not to purchase collision avoidance systems, even those that are considered standard equipment, federal requirements are necessary to increase widespread deployment of this technology.
* Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
* (psychology) Of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society.

#### Synonyms

* (capable of being adapted): adaptable
* adaptative

#### Antonyms

* maladaptive

#### Derived terms

* adaptive beamformer
* adaptive behaviour
* adaptive bridge
* adaptive clothing
* adaptive coding
* adaptive communications
* adaptive compression
* adaptive control
* adaptive enzyme
* adaptive equalization
* adaptive expectations
* adaptive filter
* adaptive hypertrophy
* adaptive immune system
* adaptive immunity
* adaptive intelligence
* adaptive learning
* adaptively
* adaptive management
* adaptive modulation
* adaptiveness
* adaptive optics
* adaptive predictive coding
* adaptive radiation
* adaptive resonance
* adaptive reuse
* adaptive routing
* adaptive switching
* adaptive system
* adaptive technology
* adaptive tile refresh
* adaptive value
* adaptive zone
* adaptivity
* coadaptive
* counteradaptive
* disadaptive
* idioadaptive
* inadaptive
* mechanoadaptive
* multiadaptive
* neuroadaptive
* osmoadaptive
* pathoadaptive
* photoadaptive
* postadaptive
* preadaptive
* proadaptive
* radioadaptive
* seroadaptive
* unadaptive
* viscoadaptive

#### Related terms

* adapt
* adaptability
* adaptable
* adaptableness
* adaptably
* adaptation
* adaptational
* adaptationary
* adaptative
* adaptatively
* adaptativeness
* adapted
* adaptedness
* adapter
* adaption
* adaptional
* adaptionary
* adaptitude
* adaptly
* adaptness
* adaptorial
* nonadaptive
* nonadaptively
* nonadaptiveness
* nonadaptivity

#### References

* “adaptive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

## French
### Adjective

adaptive
* feminine singular of adaptif

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

adaptive
* inflection of adaptiv:
** strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
** strong nominative/accusative plural
** weak nominative all-gender singular
** weak accusative feminine/neuter singular