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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Adaptation \Ad`ap*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. adaptation, LL 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. 2. The result of adapting; an adapted form From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: adaptation n 1: a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form: "the play is an adaptation of a short novel" [syn: {version}] 2: the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions) [syn: {adjustment}] 3: (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)
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