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adaptation
Overview of noun adaptation
The noun adaptation has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) adaptation, version -- (a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form; "the play is an adaptation of a short novel")
2. adaptation, adaption, adjustment -- (the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions))
3. adaptation -- ((physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light))
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun adaptation
3 senses of adaptation
Sense 1
adaptation, version
=> writing, written material, piece of writing
=> written communication, written language
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
adaptation, adaption, adjustment
=> organic process, biological process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
adaptation
=> alteration, modification, adjustment
=> change
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun adaptation
3 senses of adaptation
Sense 1
adaptation, version
=> modernization
=> versification
Sense 2
adaptation, adaption, adjustment
=> acclimatization, acclimatisation, acclimation
=> dedifferentiation
=> domestication
=> specialization, specialisation, differentiation
Sense 3
adaptation
=> dark adaptation
=> light adaptation
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun adaptation
3 senses of adaptation
Sense 1
adaptation, version
=> writing, written material, piece of writing
Sense 2
adaptation, adaption, adjustment
=> organic process, biological process
Sense 3
adaptation
=> alteration, modification, adjustment
Antonyms of noun adaptation
Member Holonyms of noun adaptation
Substance Holonyms of noun adaptation
Part Holonyms of noun adaptation
Member Meronyms of noun adaptation
Substance Meronyms of noun adaptation
Part Meronyms of noun adaptation
Meronyms of noun adaptation
Holonyms of noun adaptation
Attributes of noun adaptation
Derived Forms of noun adaptation
1 of 3 senses of adaptation
Sense 2
adaptation, adaption, adjustment
RELATED TO>(verb) adapt#2
=> adjust, conform, adapt
Domain of noun adaptation
1 of 3 senses of adaptation
Sense 3
adaptation
TOPIC>(noun) physiology#1
Domain Terms of noun adaptation
Familiarity of noun adaptation
adaptation used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun adaptation
3 senses of adaptation
Sense 1
adaptation, version
> writing, written material, piece of writing
=> bowdlerization, bowdlerisation
=> title
=> cryptogram, cryptograph, secret writing
=> rewrite, revision, rescript
=> literary composition, literary work
=> literature
=> literature
=> matter
=> criticism, literary criticism
=> section, subdivision
=> paragraph
=> diary, journal
=> inscription, lettering
=> manuscript, ms
=> autograph
=> treatise
=> adaptation, version
=> essay
=> editing, redaction
=> sacred text, sacred writing, religious writing, religious text
=> screed
HAS INSTANCE=> Ayurveda
=> document, written document, papers
=> dramatic composition, dramatic work
=> dithyramb
=> plagiarism
=> transcript
Sense 2
adaptation, adaption, adjustment
> organic process, biological process
=> adaptation, adaption, adjustment
=> agglutination
=> aging, ageing, senescence
=> anovulation
=> antisepsis, asepsis
=> assimilation, absorption
=> autoregulation
=> bacteriostasis
=> blooming, bloom
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> carbon cycle
=> catabolism, katabolism, dissimilation, destructive metabolism
=> cell division, cellular division
=> crossing over, crossover
=> defoliation
=> deossification
=> digestion
=> eburnation
=> ecchymosis
=> effacement
=> erythropoiesis
=> eutrophication
=> evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis
=> expression
=> extravasation
=> gastrulation
=> glycogenesis
=> growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
=> hematopoiesis, haematopoiesis, hemopoiesis, haemopoiesis, hemogenesis, haemogenesis, hematogenesis, haematogenesis, sanguification
=> heredity
=> humification
=> hypostasis, epistasis
=> implantation, nidation
=> inhibition
=> invagination, introversion, intussusception, infolding
=> involution
=> cytokinesis
=> karyokinesis
=> keratinization, keratinisation
=> Krebs cycle, Krebs citric acid cycle, citric acid cycle, tricarboxylic acid cycle
=> lymphopoiesis
=> lysogenization, lysogenisation
=> maturation, ripening, maturement
=> metabolism, metabolic process, metastasis
=> metamorphosis, metabolism
=> nitrogen cycle
=> nitrogen fixation
=> nondevelopment
=> nutrition
=> organification
=> ossification
=> ovulation
=> oxidative phosphorylation
=> parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
=> pathologic process, pathological process
=> perennation
=> preservation
=> quellung, quellung reaction
=> quickening
=> regeneration
=> regulation
=> replication
=> reproduction
=> resorption, reabsorption
=> ripening, aging, ageing
=> secretion, secernment
=> segregation
=> shedding, sloughing
=> summation
=> symphysis
=> synapsis
=> synizesis, synezesis
=> transcription
=> transduction
=> translation
=> protein folding, folding
=> translocation
=> translocation
=> transpiration
=> tumefaction
=> ulceration
=> vascularization, vascularisation
=> vesiculation, vesication, blistering
Sense 3
adaptation
> alteration, modification, adjustment
=> loosening, laxation
=> tightening
=> accommodation
=> adaptation
=> tune
Meronyms of noun adaptation
3 senses of adaptation
Sense 1
adaptation, version
=> writing, written material, piece of writing
HAS PART: epilogue, epilog
=> written communication, written language
HAS PART: leaf, folio
Holonyms of noun adaptation
Grep of noun adaptation
adaptation
dark adaptation
light adaptation
Grep of adj adaptation
adaptational
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