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Definition of Adaptation
Adaptation

The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.

The result of adapting; an adapted form.

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Adaptation Quotations

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
Ernst Mach

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
Lord Chesterfield

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
Henry Miller

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.
Henry Miller

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.
Trofim Lysenko

Adaptation Translations

adaptation in Dutch is modificatie, bewerking, aanpassing
adaptation in French is adaptation
adaptation in German is Anpassung {f}
adaptation in Italian is adattamento
adaptation in Swedish is anpassning, adaptation


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