adaptation

[Ad`ap*ta·tion]

Some people always read the book before seeing the movie adaptation of it: They want to get the real story before it's rewritten for film and imagine what all the characters look like before the wrong actors are chosen to play them.

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The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.

Noun
(physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)

Noun
a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form; "the play is an adaptation of a short novel"

Noun
the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)


n.
The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.

n.
The result of adapting; an adapted form.


Adaptation

Ad`ap*ta"tion , n. [Cf. F. adaptation, LL. adaptatio.] 1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine. 2. The result of adapting; an adapted form.

The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.

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Usage Examples

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

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Other Usage Examples

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

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