Noun: adaptation
| Singular | adaptation |
| Plural | adaptations |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1950 November, H. P. White, “The Furka-Oberalp Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 770:]
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Lifestyle adaptation arises because people inevitably encounter a gap between the style of life they desire and the actual resources they control. [2015, Jon M. Hawes, Proceedings of the 1989 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference, Springer, →ISBN, page 70:]
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It's staggering because these adaptations to your schedule can dramatically change your life forever. [1999, Jim Meisenheimer, How to Double Your Sales Without Quadrupling Your Effort, Helbern, →ISBN, page 41:]
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ACCLIMATIZATION, the process of adaptation by which animals and plants are gradually rendered capable of surviving and flourishing in countries remote from their original habitats, or under meteorological conditions different from those which they have usually to endure, and at first injurious to them. [1911, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:]
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This is the very method adopted, in the structure of the eye, to produce a perfect picture on the retina; it is an adaptation to the laws of light, and the property of color, in natural objects. [1844, Robert Sears, The Guide to Knowledge, Or Repertory of Facts: Forming a Complete Library of Entertaining Information, in the Several Departments of Science, Lterature, and Art, Embellished by Several Hundred Engravings, page 465:]
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Plays are rich and suitable sources for adaptation to film. [2010, David K. Irving, Fundamentals of Film Directing, McFarland, →ISBN, page 19:]
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Having partly a bibliographic value, and partly confirming the statements above as to Balzac's influence, the following details concerning theatrical adaptations of some of his novels may serve as a supplement to this chapter. [1910, Frederick Lawton, Balzac:]
Nouns inflected like adaptation
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
3. Proto-Italic *ad
4. Proto-Italic *ad-
5. Latin ad-
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep-
7. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ptós
9. Proto-Italic *aptos
10. Latin aptus
11. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
12. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
13. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
14. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
15. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
16. Proto-Italic *-ājō
17. Proto-Italic *-āō
18. Latin -ō
19. Latin apiō
20. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
21. Proto-Italic *-tos
22. Latin -tus
23. ▲
24. Latin -ō
25. Latin -tō
26. Latin aptō
27. Latin adaptō
28. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
29. Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
30. Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
31. Proto-Italic *-tiō
32. Latin -tiō
33. Medieval Latin adaptātiōbor.
34. French adaptationbor.
35. English adaptation
36. From French adaptation, from Medieval Latin adaptātiō, from Latin adaptō (“to fit, adjust, modify; to adapt, fit or adjust to”); see adapt. Equivalent to adapt + -ation. See: French Nouns '
adaptation', Latin Nouns '
adaptō'.
Verbs referencing "adaptation"
Polish Nouns
adaptacja.