Adoption vs. Adaptation

Adoptionnoun

The act of adopting. en

Adoptionnoun

The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.

Adoptionnoun

Admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum.

Adoptionnoun

The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance

Adoptionnoun

(computing) Transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.

Adoptionnoun

(theology) An act of divine grace by which the redeemed in Christ are admitted to the privileges of the sons of God.

Adoptionnoun

Ten consecutive wins against an opponent.

Adoptionnoun

The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

Adoptionnoun

Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

Adoptionnoun

The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.

Adoptionnoun

the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception;

Adoptionnoun

a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)

Adoptionnoun

the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source;

Adoption

Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents. Legal adoptions permanently transfer all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, from the biological parent or parents.

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.