ADAPTATION as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)
   Hypernyms(s) adaptation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • alteration (what does alteration mean?)
   • modification (what does modification mean?)
   • adjustment (what does adjustment mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • dark adaptation (what does dark adaptation mean?)
   • light adaptation (what does light adaptation mean?)
2. Meaning
   • a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form
   Synonym(s)
   • version (what does version mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • the play is an adaptation of a short novel
   Hypernyms(s) adaptation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • writing (what does writing mean?)
   • written material (what does written material mean?)
   • piece of writing (what does piece of writing mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • modernization (what does modernization mean?)
   • versification (what does versification mean?)
3. Meaning
   • the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)
   Synonym(s)
   • adjustment (what does adjustment mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) adaptation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • organic process (what does organic process mean?)
   • biological process (what does biological process mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • acclimatization (what does acclimatization mean?)
   • acclimatisation (what does acclimatisation mean?)
   • acclimation (what does acclimation mean?)
   • dedifferentiation (what does dedifferentiation mean?)
   • domestication (what does domestication mean?)
   • specialization (what does specialization mean?)
   • specialisation (what does specialisation mean?)
   • differentiation (what does differentiation mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • adjust (what does adjust mean?)
   • conform (what does conform mean?)
   • adapt (what does adapt mean?)
   • adjust (what does adjust mean?)
   • conform (what does conform mean?)
   • adapt (what does adapt mean?)