2) adaptation. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...adaptation, in biology, has several meanings. It can mean the adjustment of living matter to environmental conditions and to other living things either in an organism's...

3) 2. Culture as Adaptation. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...2. Culture as Adaptation This common approach thinks of human cultures as cultural systems interacting with their natural environments-environmental systems of which...

4) adaptation. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...adaptation The changes made by living systems in response to their environment. Heavy fur, for example, is one adaptation to a cold climate. 1...

5) adaptation, adaption. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...Adaptation is far more common; adaption is a much less frequent synonym. 1...

6) adaptation. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...or situation. b. A composition that has been recast into a new form: The play is an adaptation of a short novel. 3. Biology An alteration or adjustment in structure...

7) §14. Dryden s Adaptation of Shakespearean Plays and Themes. I. Dryden. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...younger partner. 63 Quite otherwise, Dryden s All for Love, or The World Well Lost is not an adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra, but a free treatment of the same...

8) light adaptation. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...The process, chiefly involving constriction of the pupil, by which the eye adapts to an increase in illumination. light-a·dapted (lt-daptid) -ADJECTIVE...

9) dark adaptation. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...The physical and chemical adjustments of the eye, including dilation of the pupil and increased activity of rods in the retina, that make vision possible in relative...

10) §4. Continuation, Stage adaptation and Parody; Fielding and Richardson. I. Richardson. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (April, 1741), the authorship of which is still under discussion; it was followed by Fielding s History of the Adventures...