Adaptation

(noun.) (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light).

(noun.) a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form; 'the play is an adaptation of a short novel'.

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

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• Together they set about designing the machine to make it as nearly perfect as possible in adaptation to the needs of modern business. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The discovery may long precede its adaptation in physical form, and both the discovery and adaptation may occur together. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• That the small size of the egg is a real case of adaptation we may infer from the fact of the mon-parasitic American cuckoo laying full-sized eggs. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In 1639 Galileo, then old and blind, dictated to his son one of his books in which he discussed the isochronal properties of oscillating bodies, and their adaptation as time measures. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• This adaptation of the needle to looms has placed ribbons within the reach of the poor as well as the rich girl. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• But intellectual tools are indefinitely more flexible in their range of adaptation than other mechanical tools. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Bowling, as we know today, is an indoor adaptation of, and an improvement upon, the old Dutch game of nine-pins. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and seizing insects in the chinks of the bark? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The more tenacious the memory, the richer the supply of image s, the greater the powers of adaptation and survival. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• There is no finality in adaptation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This adaptation is attained in various ways. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The practical method of securing the proper and ready adaptation of balances to springs is to place in the rims of the balance a number of small screws having relatively heavy heads. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Adaptation, Mr. Lloyd George admitted, there had to be. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But the degree of adaptation of species to the climates under which they live is often overrated. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• An electric lamp answering certain specific requirements would, indeed, be the key to the situation, but its commercial adaptation required a multifarious variety of apparatus and devices. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Special contrivances and adaptations of the telegraph for printing stock reports and for transmitting fire alarm, police, and emergency calls, have been invented. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Both involve ends consciously entertained and the selection and adaptations of materials and processes designed to effect the desired ends. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The real, like the Platonic Socrates, as we gather from the Memorabilia of Xenophon, was fond of making similar adaptations. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• These adaptations, no doubt, made the new teaching much more understandable and acceptable in Egypt and Syria and the like. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Inventors came forward with adaptations of all the old systems they could think of for the purpose, and with many new ones. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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