Adaptation vs. Adapt

Adaptationnoun

(uncountable) The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.

Adaptationnoun

(countable) A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.

Adaptationnoun

The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.

Adaptationnoun

An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.

Adaptationnoun

(uncountable) The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.

Adaptationnoun

An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.

Adaptationnoun

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

Adaptationnoun

The result of adapting; an adapted form.

Adaptationnoun

a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form;

Adaptationnoun

the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)

Adaptationnoun

(physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)

Adaptation

In biology, adaptation has three related meanings. Firstly, it is the dynamic evolutionary process that fits organisms to their environment, enhancing their evolutionary fitness.

Adaptverb

(transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit

Adaptverb

(transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust

Adaptverb

(transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character

Adaptverb

(intransitive) To change oneself so as to be adapted.

Adaptadjective

Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

Adaptadjective

Fitted; suited.

Adaptverb

To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; - sometimes followed by to or for.

Adaptverb

make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose;

Adaptverb

adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions;