ACCOMMODATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accommodation mean? 

• ACCOMMODATION (noun)
  The noun ACCOMMODATION has 6 senses:

1. making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances

2. a settlement of differences

3. in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality

4. living quarters provided for public convenience

5. the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need

6. (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye

  Familiarity information: ACCOMMODATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCOMMODATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

accommodation; adjustment; fitting

Hypernyms ("accommodation" is a kind of...):

advance; betterment; improvement (a change for the better; progress in development)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "accommodation"):

readjustment (the act of adjusting again (to changed circumstances))

domestication (accommodation to domestic life)

habituation (a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions)

shakedown (initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state)

Derivation:

accommodate (make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose)

accommodate (make (one thing) compatible with (another))

accommodate (be agreeable or acceptable to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A settlement of differences

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

they reached an accommodation with Japan

Hypernyms ("accommodation" is a kind of...):

settlement (a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "accommodation"):

modus vivendi (a temporary accommodation of a disagreement between parties pending a permanent settlement)

compromise (an accommodation in which both sides make concessions)

Derivation:

accommodate (make (one thing) compatible with (another))

Sense 3

Meaning:

In the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("accommodation" is a kind of...):

developmental learning (learning that takes place as a normal part of cognitive development)

Derivation:

accommodate (make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose)

accommodate (make (one thing) compatible with (another))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Living quarters provided for public convenience

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

overnight accommodations are available

Hypernyms ("accommodation" is a kind of...):

living quarters; quarters (housing available for people to live in)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "accommodation"):

cabin class; economy class; second class (a class of accommodations on a ship or train or plane that are less expensive than first class accommodations)

first class (the most expensive accommodations on a ship or train or plane)

lodging house; rooming house (a house where rooms are rented)

stabling (accommodation for animals (especially for horses))

steerage (the cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship)

third class; tourist class (inexpensive accommodations on a ship or train)

Derivation:

accommodate (provide housing for)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("accommodation" is a kind of...):

aid; assist; assistance; help (the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "accommodation"):

service (the performance of duties by a waiter or servant)

Derivation:

accommodate (provide a service or favor for someone)

accommodate (provide with something desired or needed)

accommodate (provide housing for)

Sense 6

Meaning:

(physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("accommodation" is a kind of...):

adjustment; alteration; modification (the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment))

Domain category:

physiology (the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms)

Derivation:

accommodational (of or relating to the accommodation of the lens of the eye)

 Context examples 

I believe I have lived as much on board as most women, and I know nothing superior to the accommodations of a man-of-war.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I could not help glancing round, in search of the accommodation remaining for Mr. and Mrs. Traddles.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Also, call ahead to your hotel to be sure your accommodations are in place, and give the hotel a heads-up if you expect to arrive late.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I entered—not now obliged to part with my whole fortune as the price of its accommodation.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The letter was from this gentleman himself, and written in the true spirit of friendly accommodation.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

They had a very fine day for Box Hill; and all the other outward circumstances of arrangement, accommodation, and punctuality, were in favour of a pleasant party.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The affected pupil will respond more briskly to accommodation than to light (light-near dissociation) and is supersensitive to dilute pilocarpine eye drops, which induce pupillary constriction.

(Holmes-Adie Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

This causes contraction of the iris sphincter muscle (producing miosis) and the ciliary muscle (affecting the accommodation reflex).

(Demecarium, NCI Thesaurus)

When applied topically to the eye, dilation of the pupil (mydriasis) and paralysis of accommodation (cycloplegia) result from the local anticholinergic effects on the ciliary muscle and iris.

(Homatropine Hydrobromide, NCI Thesaurus)

A more civilized or more effeminate generation, however, had refused to be pent up in such a cellar, and the hall with its neighboring chambers had been added for their accommodation.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)