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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The process of acclimating or of becoming acclimated.
  • noun Acclimatization.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The process of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated; acclimatization.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.
  • noun biology The adaptation of an organism to its natural climatic environment.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment)

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