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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Adaptation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Adaptation; the act of fitting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Adaptation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
fitting ;adaptation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)
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Examples
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If you really look at the models, adaption is the only thing that can be done fast enough.
Matthew Yglesias » Vancouver Suffering From Snow Shortage 2010
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As for the movie, seeing that Twilight adaption is "extremely loyal" to the book, without a doubt, if you decide to read the series, most likely, the movie will interest you.
Twilight's First Official Photo and Why I'm Passing « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Environmental adaption is a result of natural processes such as?????????????????, and other similarly naturalistic mechanisms.
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The fact that it's a video game adaption is a worry.
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This sort of adaption is a far cry from the notion of a worm turning into a cow or a frog into an elephant.
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So longer term adaption to high oil prices and reduced pressure on prices due to substitution without hitting living standards too hard is certainly possible.
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To answer the questions: I can't think of anything I wouldn't want to see on screen; my favorite recent adaption is "The Devil Wears Prada"; I'm really looking forward to Peter Jackson's adaptation of "The Lovely Bones"; and I don't know what Transformers are; -)
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So I would assume the manner of teaching, for better or for worse, would change in adaption.
Test Scores and Economic Performance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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"Voodoo Witch" - is more typical Eerie fare, but "The Spider" by "Darling" Dick Ayers - yet another precode "adaption" - is quite a treat.
Archive 2006-01-01 hyperdave 2006
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"Voodoo Witch" - is more typical Eerie fare, but "The Spider" by "Darling" Dick Ayers - yet another precode "adaption" - is quite a treat.
EERIE Publications - Part 2! hyperdave 2006
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