adaptation

IPA: ædʌptˈeɪʃʌn

(uncountable) The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
(countable) A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
(uncountable, evolutionary theory) The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.
(countable, evolutionary theory) An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.
(uncountable) The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.
(countable, authorship) An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.
(sociology) The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments.

Examples of "adaptation" in Sentences

Indeed, even the term "adaptation" is suspect, in my opinion.
I suggest that this adaptation is a matter of urgent public concern, today and always.
FOR the physicist and chemist the term adaptation awakens but the barren echo of an idea.
The second module, which we call the adaptation module, is known to maintain the intracellular signal at
It has sometimes been suggested that the term adaptation should be reserved for differences with a known genetic basis.
Next is what he called adaptation, or “resistance,” when the body rises to the challenge and adapts to the stressful conditions.
They've learned to do stuff via a specific set of attributes, and when any of those attributes are changed, THEN "adaptation" is required.
At all events the term adaptation includes the idea of utility, and obviously useless contrivances could hardly be brought under the same head.
By the term adaptation, we mean such choice of style, material, size and arrangement as shall fit the structure: 1st, to the site; 2d, to the climate; and 3d, to the uses for which it is built.