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    adaptation
    In literature and music, a term used to denote the modification of a particular art form to allow its suitable expression in another form, for example the...
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    adaptation
    A change in the way an organism works or in its shape or behaviour which helps the plant or animal to survive in its surroundings.
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    Adaptation
    is defined as the decline in response of a sensory receptor to a continual steady stimulus
    Found op http://www.medicalneuroscience.com/ngloss.htm
    
    
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    Adaptation
    A confusing word used to mean quite different things. (i) Characteristics of organisms evolved as a consequence of natural selection in its evolutionary past and which result in a close match with features of the environment and/or constrain the organism to life in a narrow range of environments. T...
    Found op http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/Townsend/Glossary/GlossaryA.html
    
    
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    adaptation
    A change in sensory or excitable cells upon repeated stimulation, that reduces their sensitivity to continued stimulation. Those cells that show rapid adaptation are known as phasic; those that adapt slowly are known as tonic. Can also be used in a more general sense for any system that changes resp...
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    Adaptation
    Ad`ap·ta'tion noun [ Confer French adaptation , Late Latin adaptatio .] 1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. ' Adaptation of the means to the end.' Erskine. ...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/26
    
    
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    adaptation
    1. <cell biology> The adjustment of an organism to its environment or the process by which it enhances such fitness. ... 2. <ophthalmology> The normal ability of the eye to adjust itself to variations in the intensity of light, the adjustment to such variations. ... 3. <neurology, phy...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?adaptation
    
    
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    adaptation
    noun a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form; `the play is an adaptation of a short novel`
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    adaptation
    adaption noun the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)
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    adaptation
    (ad″ap-ta´shәn) a dynamic, ongoing, life-sustaining process by which living organisms adjust to environmental changes. adjustment of the pupil to light.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001
    
    
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    Adaptation
    • (n.) The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. • (n.) The result of adapting; an adapted form.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/adaptation/
    
    
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    adaptation
    (from the article `intelligence, human`) ...stressing the ability to think abstractly and Thorndike emphasizing learning and the ability to give good responses to questions. More recently, ... The results of many of the experiments discussed above indicate that emotions have motivational and adaptiv...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/17
    
    
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    Adaptation
    (from the article `2002: Best Supporting Actor`) Other Nominees...True Thing (1998), and The Hours (2002). In 2003 Streep received an unprecedented 13th Academy Award nomination (for best supporting actress in ... [2 related articles]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/17
    
    

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