adaptation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
human-sciences
journalism
linguistics
literature
media
publishing
sciences
social-science
sociology
television
writing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Medieval Latin ad-
Proto-Italic *aptos
Medieval Latin aptus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Medieval Latin -ō
Medieval Latin apiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Medieval Latin -tus
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Medieval Latin -ō
Medieval Latin -tō
Medieval Latin aptō
Medieval Latin adaptō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Medieval Latin -tiō
Medieval Latin adaptātiōbor.
French adaptationbor.
English adaptation
From French adaptation, from Medieval Latin adaptātiō, from Latin adaptō (“to fit, adjust, modify; to adapt, fit or adjust to”); see adapt. Equivalent to adapt + -ation.
Base: adapt
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: adaptations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: adaption
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
Lifestyle adaptation arises because people inevitably encounter a gap between the style of life they desire and the actual resources they control.
gloss: A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: It's staggering because these adaptations to your schedule can dramatically change your life forever.
gloss: (uncountable) The process of replacing a given morpheme of a source lexeme with an equivalent morpheme of the target lexeme, especially where the two morphemes are cognates.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Plays are rich and suitable sources for adaptation to film.
gloss: An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: adapt
adaptability
adaptedness
adapter
adaption
adaptitude
co-adaptation
Derived words: 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
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: հարմարեցում
roman: harmarecʻum
lang: Armenian
word: ադապտացիա
roman: adaptacʻia
lang: Bulgarian
word: приспособяване
roman: prisposobjavane
lang: Bulgarian
word: пригаждане
roman: prigaždane
lang: Bulgarian
word: адаптация
roman: adaptacija
lang: Catalan
word: adaptació
lang: Esperanto
word: adaptado
lang: Finnish
word: sopeutuminen
lang: Finnish
word: sopeuttaminen
lang: Finnish
word: muutos
lang: French
word: adaptation
lang: Galician
word: adaptación
lang: German
word: Anpassung
lang: Greek
word: προσαρμογή
roman: prosarmogí
lang: Gujarati
word: અનુકૂલન
roman: anukūlan
lang: Indonesian
word: adaptasi
lang: Kazakh
word: бейімдеу
roman: beiımdeu
lang: Korean
word: 적응
roman: jeogeung
lang: Latin
word: accommodātiō
lang: Māori
word: urutaunga
lang: Persian
word: سازش
roman: sâzeš
lang: Persian
word: سازگاری
roman: sâzgâri
lang: Polish
word: adaptacja
lang: Polish
word: przystosowanie
lang: Spanish
word: adaptación