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• adaptation — (also adaption) ► NOUN 1) the action or process of adapting or being adapted. 2) a film or play adapted from a written work. 3) Biology a change by which an organism becomes better suited to its environment …   English terms dictionary

• Adaptation — This article is about the evolutionary process. For other uses, see Adaptation (disambiguation). Part of a series on Evolutionary Biology …   Wikipedia

• Organism — life on Earth redirects here. For the BBC series, see Life on Earth (TV series). Life on Earth Temporal range: Archaean or earlier – Recent These Escherichia coli cells provide an example of a prokaryotic microorganism …   Wikipedia

• 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 — 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

• adaptation — noun Date: 1610 1. the act or process of adapting ; the state of being adapted 2. adjustment to environmental conditions: as a. adjustment of a sense organ to the intensity or quality of stimulation b …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• adaptation — n. [L. ad, near; aptus, fit] The process and condition of showing fitness for a particular environment, as applied to characteristics of a structure, function, or entire organism; also the process by which such fitness is acquired …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

• adaptation — In biology, a characteristic of an organism that arose through its being naturally selected for its current use (see Darwinism ). This is contrasted with an exaptation or feature that is co opted for a use: an exaptation is a feature that will… …   Philosophy dictionary

• adaptation —    An inherited structural, functional, or behavioral characteristic that improves an organism s chances for survival in a particular habitat [23].    See also mutation …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• adaptation — noun 1》 the action or process of adapting or being adapted. 2》 a film or play adapted from a written work. 3》 Biology a change or the process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment …   English new terms dictionary