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noun. The act or process of adapting.

noun. The state of being adapted.

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noun. Something, such as a device or mechanism, that is changed or changes so as to become suitable to a new or special application or situation.

noun. A composition that has been recast into a new form.

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noun. The alteration or adjustment in structure or habits, often occurring through natural selection, by which a species or individual becomes better able to function in its environment.

noun. A structure or habit that results from this process.

noun. The responsive adjustment of a sense organ, such as the eye, to varying conditions, such as light intensity.

noun. Change in behavior of a person or group in response to new or modified surroundings.

noun. Same as immunization.

noun. The act of adapting or adjusting; the state of being adapted or fitted; adjustment to circumstances or relations.

noun. That which is adapted; the result of altering for a different use.

noun. In biology, advantageous variation in animals or plants under changed conditions; the result of adaptability to, and variability under, external conditions; the operation of external influences upon a variable organism, or a character acquired by the organism as the result of such operation.

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

noun. The result of adapting; an adapted form.

noun. The quality of being adapted; adaption; adjustment.

noun. Adjustment to extant conditions: as, adjustment of a sense organ to the intensity or quality of stimulation; modification of some thing or its parts that makes it more fit for existence under the conditions of its current environment.

noun. Something which has been adapted; variation.

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

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

noun. a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form