adaptation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌædəpˈteɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌædæpˈteɪʃən/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈɖapˌʈeʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: adaptations
form: adaption
Etymology: From French adaptation, from Medieval Latin adaptātiō, from Latin adaptō (“I fit, adjust, modify; I adapt, fit or adjust to”); see adapt. Equivalent to adapt + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: To sum up, the Furka-Oberalp Railway is a good example of the adaptation of the rack-and-pinion system to a main line over mountainous terrain.
ref: 1950 November, H. P. White, “The Furka-Oberalp Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 770:
text: Lifestyle adaptation arises because people inevitably encounter a gap between the style of life they desire and the actual resources they control.
ref: 2015, Jon M. Hawes, Proceedings of the 1989 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference, Springer, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
examples: text: It's staggering because these adaptations to your schedule can dramatically change your life forever.
ref: 1999, Jim Meisenheimer, How to Double Your Sales Without Quadrupling Your Effort, Helbern, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
examples: text: ACCLIMATIZATION, the process of adaptation by which animals and plants are gradually rendered capable of surviving and flourishing in countries remote from their original habitats, or under meteorological conditions different from those which they have usually to endure, and at first injurious to them.
ref: 1911, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
antonyms: maladaptation
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.
examples: text: This is the very method adopted, in the structure of the eye, to produce a perfect picture on the retina; it is an adaptation to the laws of light, and the property of color, in natural objects.
ref: 1844, Robert Sears, The Guide to Knowledge, Or Repertory of Facts: Forming a Complete Library of Entertaining Information, in the Several Departments of Science, Lterature, and Art, Embellished by Several Hundred Engravings, page 465:
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.
examples: text: Plays are rich and suitable sources for adaptation to film.
ref: 2010, David K. Irving, Fundamentals of Film Directing, McFarland, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.
examples: text: Having partly a bibliographic value, and partly confirming the statements above as to Balzac's influence, the following details concerning theatrical adaptations of some of his novels may serve as a supplement to this chapter.
ref: 1910, Frederick Lawton, Balzac:
topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
glosses: An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments.
Derived terms: adaptational
adaptationism
adaptationist
angioadaptation
bioadaptation
counteradaptation
deadaptation
deep adaptation
disadaptation
exaptation
haloadaptation
hedonic adaptation
hyperadaptation
inadaptation
interadaptation
ketoadaptation
mechanoadaptation
misadaptation
Netflix adaptation
neuroadaptation
nonadaptation
osmoadaptation
overadaptation
pathoadaptation
photoadaptation
postadaptation
preadaptation
pseudoadaptation
readaptation
seroadaptation
space adaptation syndrome
thermoadaptation
Related terms: adapt
adaptability
adaptedness
adapter
adaption
adaptitude
co-adaptation