adaptation

  1. Noun.  (uncountable) The quality of being adapted; adaption; adjustment.
  2. Noun.  (uncountable) Adjustment to extant conditions: as, adjustment of a sense organ to the intensity or quality of stimulation; modification of some thing or its parts that makes it more fit for existence under the conditions of its current environment.
  3. Noun.  (countable) Something which has been adapted; variation.

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