Meaning of adaptation in English

adaptation

noun

/ˌæd.əpˈteɪ.ʃən/ us

/ˌæd.əpˈteɪ.ʃən/

(also adaption, uk/əˈdæp.ʃən/ us/əˈdæp.ʃən/)

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C1 [ U ]

the process of changing to suit different conditions:

The documentary is about corruption, crime and human adaptation to difficult circumstances.

His team's successful adaptation to life in the top-flight has come as no surprise.

[ C or U ] biology specialized

the process in which a living thing changes slightly over time to be able to continue to exist in a particular environment, or a change like this:

Evolution occurs as a result of adaptation to new environments.

It's these evolutionary adaptations that make aphids and other insects so destructive.

[ C ]

a film, book, play, etc. that has been made from another film, book, play, etc.:

Last year he starred in the film adaptation of Bill Cronshaw's best-selling novel.

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adaptation

noun [ C/U ]

/ˌæd·əpˈteɪ·ʃən, -ˌæp-/

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something produced to adjust to different conditions or uses, or to meet different situations:

[ C ] The movie was an adaptation of a novel.

biology

a characteristic of a plant or animal that makes it able to adjust to the conditions of a particular environment

(Definition of adaptation from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of adaptation

adaptation

The phylotypes identified here will be important organisms to study to learn their adaptations to cryogenic conditions.

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Our lab is using viruses of hyperthermophilic organisms to elucidate these limits, and the adaptations of life needed for survival in extreme environments.

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The reason is that it is hard to decide which particular adaptations should be associated to specific user actions.

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Their adaptations have made them robust and resilient to natural disturbances and harsh climatic conditions.

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The occurrence of par tial adaptations to the standard languages, hypercorrections, and hyperdialectalisms indicates a rather weak knowledge of the dialect.

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The view advanced here is that they identify a set of behavioral adaptations for social interaction favored in our evolutionary past by group selection.

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They include cognitive adaptations to detect cheaters, paired with behavioral propensities to punish those who violate principles of reciprocity, including third-party violators.

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Furthermore, speeding up biological feedback mechanisms may require evolutionary adaptations that are too complicated or metabolically too costly to develop.

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Similarly, varying patterns of marriage can be viewed as adaptations.

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More research is needed to examine whether such adaptations enhance changed behaviour among participants rather than just maintain them, as in this study.

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Home adaptations and private help do not significantly relate to the level of orientation.

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Such processes may therefore give rise to processes of mutual adaptations.

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An ability to change planned strategies reactively depending on intermediate results is also a must and such adaptations should also be remembered for future use.

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Plant response to stress: biochemical adaptations to phosphate deficiency.

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However, amazing adaptations to extreme stresses do not only occur in microbes, but also in many multicellular organisms.

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Collocations with adaptation

adaptation

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adaptation mechanism

They concluded that the adaptation mechanism they examined was cor tical.

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anime adaptation

She also does the previews for the next episodes in the anime adaptation.

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behavioural adaptation

The white tip derives its function from the function of the behavioural adaptation in which it is put to work.

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Translations of adaptation

in Chinese (Traditional)

適應, （電影、書、劇本等的）改編…

Meaning of adaptation in English

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