Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or exhibiting adaptation.
- adjective Readily capable of adapting or of being adapted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or characterized by adaptation; making or made fit or suitable; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing
adaptation ; making or madefit orsuitable . - adjective Capable of being
adapted or ofadapting ;susceptible of or undergoing accordantchange . - adjective psychology Of a
trait : that helps anindividual tofunction well insociety .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a capacity for adaptation
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Examples
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Ruan's model, however, which she calls adaptive, aims to accurately localize tumors in real-time by imaging smarter, rather than more frequently.
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While modernizing the three-story building, the Meekers plan to also retain its historic flavor, which they call adaptive reuse.
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In some sense, planning to be flexible and adaptive is the most difficult type of planning that can be done.
Doubts about Planning, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But where is the direct supportive evidence for the assumption that complexity is rooted in adaptive processes?
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Delbanco identifies a quality he calls "adaptive energy" in the old artists who continue to work, undaunted, to the last possible moment.
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For this purpose, control and regulating technology had to be further developed into self-regulating biomechatronic systems, which could also play a future role in adaptive production.
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Whether there is telic agency involved in adaptive evolution or just ruthless selection (not in evidence in many cases, all the way down to the genes themselves), there are reasons why birds have wings and mammals have hair and whales have subcutaneous fat … these things have function for the organism – they work.
Crossroads 2009
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Start with a replicating system having built-in adaptive mechanisms and guess what happens next?
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It writes: "The idea of the big society is at its weakest when it is presented as a partisan technical solution to acute socio-economic problems, and at its strongest when viewed as a non-partisan long-term adaptive challenge to enrich our social and human capital."
Before we build Cameron's big society, we'll need to know what it is 2011
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Start with a replicating system having built-in adaptive mechanisms and guess what happens next?
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