adaptation
The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
Other meanings
A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
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.
Related words
- adaptational
- adaptationism
- adaptationist
- angioadaptation
- bioadaptation
- Netflix adaptation
- counteradaptation
- deadaptation
- deep adaptation
- disadaptation
- exaptation
- haloadaptation
Word history
From Latin "adaptō" (to fit, adjust, modify; to adapt, fit or adjust to).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “adaptation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.