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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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"Adaptation" Quotes from Famous Books

... process of continuously adapting organisms to their environment takes place in nature at all, there is no reason why we should set any limits on the extent to which it is able to go up to the point at which a complete and perfect adaptation is achieved. Therefore we might suppose that all species would attain to this condition of perfect adjustment to their environment, and there remain fixed. And so undoubtedly they would, if the environment were itself unchanging. ...

— The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution • George John Romanes

... of the world for saving time and energy by the adaptation of physical and intellectual forces to pursuits in which they are most effective, is a profitable study for nations, as it is for individuals. Hand in hand, however, with such occupation should go the ...

— Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission • Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

... are given to serve the purpose of illustration. The American reader will not fail, of course, to make due allowance for the difference of rent, prices, etc., between this country and England, and the matter of adaptation then ...

— Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it • Miss Coulton

... mastered by our navy by the time of the Trafalgar campaign. The effect of those lessons showed itself in our ship-building policy, and has been placed on permanent record in the history of maritime achievement and of the adaptation of material means to ...

— Sea-Power and Other Studies • Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge

... when I first made myself master of the central idea of the Origin, was: "How extremely stupid not to have thought of that." I suppose that Columbus's companions said much the same when he made the egg stand on end. The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness, and the beacon-fire of ...

— Thomas Henry Huxley - A Character Sketch • Leonard Huxley

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