adaptation.

Like the organs, these tissues are differentiated, structurally and functionally, and they also are so placed and related as to exhibit the kind of mechanical adjustment which we call adaptation.

The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton

That's why New York City's climate change action plan includes both disaster planning and long-term adaptation.

Jonathan Lash: Mayors "Get It" on Climate Change 2008

For polar bears, there is no long-term adaptation.

NYT > Home Page By ANDREW C. REVKIN 2010

For polar bears, there is no long-term adaptation.

NYT > Home Page By ANDREW C. REVKIN 2010

At the single cell level, improvement can only be gauged by measuring neuronal responses after several successive "trainings" such as long-term adaptation.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Narcis Ghisovan et al. 2008

Maybe continued exposure (if forced upon me) will result in adaptation.

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A second and quite distinct version of the beneficiary question involves the notion of adaptation.

Units and Levels of Selection Lloyd, Elisabeth 2005

I think i'm starting to see the good of "adaptation."

moschikat Diary Entry moschikat 2002

The sock business has not been populated by that kind of adaptation.

Oral History Interview with Robert Sidney Smith, January 25, 1999. Interview I-0081. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1999

Secretary-General Thant's new plan was only a distant relative of his old one, in spite of his claim that it was merely an "adaptation."

A Special Supplement: Vietnam: How Not to Negotiate Draper, Theodore H. 1967