adaptation ability

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• adaptation — adaptational, adj. adaptationally, adv. /ad euhp tay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act of adapting. 2. the state of being adapted; adjustment. 3. something produced by adapting: an adaptation of a play for television. 4. Biol. a. any alteration in the… …   Universalium

• adaptation — 1. Preferential survival of members of a species because of a phenotype that gives them an enhanced capacity to withstand the environment including the ecology. 2. An advantageous change in function or constitution of an organ or tissu …   Medical dictionary

• Adaptation to extrauterine life — At the end of pregnancy, the fetus must take the journey of childbirth to leave the reproductive female mother.Upon its entry to the air breathing world, the newborn must begin to adjust to life outside the uterus. Breathing and circulation… …   Wikipedia

• adaptation — ad•ap•ta•tion [[t]ˌæd əpˈteɪ ʃən[/t]] n. 1) the act of adapting or the state of being adapted 2) something produced by adapting: an adaptation of a play for television[/ex] 3) bio a) any beneficial alteration in an organism resulting from natural …   From formal English to slang

• Gaussian adaptation — Articleissues citations missing = July 2008 COI = y expert = Mathematics notability = July 2008 jargon = July 2008 OR = September 2007 primarysources = July 2008 technical = July 2008Gaussian adaptation (GA) is an evolutionary algorithm designed… …   Wikipedia