Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to adaptation; adaptive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Adaptive.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
adaptation ;adaptive .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a capacity for adaptation
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Examples
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A scientist thinks he has uncovered the secrets to the adaptative powers of the animal kingdom, via the pineal gland.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Best Of Stanley G. Weinbaum - Stanley G. Weinbaum Blue Tyson 2008
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He has worked on building behavioral models to explain adaptative responses to climate change.
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I imagine adaptation insofar as human intelligence goes, which certainly allows us to be supremely adaptative.
Adaptationism 2007
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I agree completely with TR … you act like global warming is something we can adapt to, but you need to remember that the larger the change and the shorter the time frame, the more challenging the adaptative and economic impacts will be.
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According to the Ambient Intelligence vision, devices in our homes, offices, cars and public spaces will be interconnected, adaptative, personalized and context-aware.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Ambient Intelligence and Smart Surroundings in the Netherlands 2006
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A scientist thinks he has uncovered the secrets to the adaptative powers of the animal kingdom, via the pineal gland.
Archive 2008-11-01 Blue Tyson 2008
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Introgresions actually should be clearly adaptative, otherwise the chances are virtually zero.
Neanderthal DNA Kosmo 2008
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To make a case for violence being coded as programs of behaviour as a result of adaptative forces one needs to demonstrate evidence of such programs, not merely the ubiquity of violence.
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In my opinion, Pinker and other evolutionary psych advocates are very strong at gesturing to the adaptative forces that inevitably, inexorably, just must have been the cause of behaviour we see today perhaps because it gives them a chance to take a break from proper science and read lots of Hobbes on the 'war of all against all'.
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The one who acquires self-control, who gives in during the adaptative period of which we have written, is not the weaker.
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