adaptation

Plural

adaptations

1. 1.The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.

   • To sum up, the Furka-Oberalp Railway is a good example of the adaptation of the rack-and-pinion system to a main line over mountainous terrain.
   • Lifestyle adaptation arises because people inevitably encounter a gap between the style of life they desire and the actual resources they control.

2. 2.A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.

   • It's staggering because these adaptations to your schedule can dramatically change your life forever.

3. 3.The process of replacing a given morpheme of a source lexeme with an equivalent morpheme of the target lexeme, especially where the two morphemes are cognates.

4. 4.The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.

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