Usually means: Adjustment to environment for survival.
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We found 55 dictionaries that define the word adaptation:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. adaptation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. adaptation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adaptation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adaptation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adaptation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adaptation, adaptation: Wordnik
  7. adaptation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. adaptation: Wiktionary
  9. adaptation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adaptation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adaptation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. adaptation: Dictionary.com
  13. adaptation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Adaptation. (film), Adaptation. (movie), Adaptation (The Walking Dead), Adaptation (arts), Adaptation (biology), Adaptation (computer science), Adaptation (disambiguation), Adaptation (eye), Adaptation (film), Adaptation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Adaptation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. adaptation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. adaptation: Rhymezone
  18. adaptation, adaptation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. adaptation: Free Dictionary
  20. adaptation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. adaptation: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. adaptation: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. adaptation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Adaptation: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Adaptation (biology), Adaptation (disambiguation), adaptation: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Adaptation: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. Adaptation (biology), adaptation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  4. Adaptation (biology), Adaptation (disambiguation), Adaptation (eye), adaptation: Medical dictionary
  5. Adaptation: Visionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Adaptation: Glossary of Translation and Interpreting Terminology
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Science (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. Visionary, for the Study of Vision (No longer online)
  2. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  5. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)
  6. adaptation: Evolution Glossary
  7. adaptation: Evolution Glossary
  8. adaptation: Anthropological Terms
  9. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  10. adaptation: Natural History Terms
  11. Biodiversity (No longer online)
  12. Bird On! (No longer online)
  13. adaptation: Archaeology Wordsmith

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adaptation: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. adaptation: Lighting Design Glossary
  2. adaptation: Canadian Soil Information System
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See adaptational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
noun:  (countable) A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
noun:  (uncountable, evolutionary theory) The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.
noun:  (countable, evolutionary theory) An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.
noun:  (uncountable) The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.
noun:  (countable, authorship) An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.
noun:  (sociology) The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments.

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