ADAPTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adaption mean? 

• ADAPTION (noun)
  The noun ADAPTION has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ADAPTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADAPTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

adaptation; adaption; adjustment

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

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

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

acclimation; acclimatisation; acclimatization (adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment))

dedifferentiation (the loss of specialization in form or function)

domestication (adaptation to intimate association with human beings)

differentiation; specialisation; specialization ((biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function)

Derivation:

adapt (adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions)