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Adaptation

noun

A written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form. Synonym: version.

The process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions). Synonyms: adaption, adjustment.

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

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... priggish. The talker was not more than 22 or 23 years old, but the immense experience he had passed through was more than wonderful, and the old chestnuts he got off as having happened to himself were beyond Eli Perkins' power of adaptation. ...

— A Man of Samples • Wm. H. Maher

... its numberless variations present the most remarkable example of adaptation in the genus. The variations are mostly those associated with changes of environment—dimensions of cone and leaf and the number of leaves in the fascicle. These are so accurately correlated with altitude and exposure, and are so imperceptibly graded, that no specific ...

— The Genus Pinus • George Russell Shaw

... shows Spenser's wonderful technique. His exquisite effects are produced, it will be noticed, partly by the choice of musical words and partly by the rhythmical cadence of the verse phrases. It is an example of perfect "keeping," or adaptation of sound to sense. Cf. Chaucer's description of the waterfalls in the Cave of Sleep in his Boke of the ...

— Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I • Edmund Spenser

... process. He afterwards associated himself with Andrew Wilson, a London printer, and in 1802 the plaster process, as it was called, was perfected. This remained in use until 1846, when a system of forming moulds in papier mache was introduced, and this was succeeded by the adaptation of the ...

— A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 • Henry R. Plomer

... folkways, therefore, are not creations of human purpose and wit. They are like products of natural forces which men unconsciously set in operation, or they are like the instinctive ways of animals, which are developed out of experience, which reach a final form of maximum adaptation to an interest, which are handed down by tradition and admit of no exception or variation, yet change to meet new conditions, still within the same limited methods, and without rational reflection or purpose. From this it results that all the life of human beings, in all ...

— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

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