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adaptation
adaptation Adaptation means adjustment or fitness, such as how a structure, function, or means suits an end.
Adaptation means adjustment or fitness, such as how a structure, function, or means suits an end. In the historical biological sense, it refers to how an organism or its organs fit the environment, including both inherited and acquired forms, though some writers used the term more narrowly for hereditary structural adjustments and contrasted acquired individual adjustment with accommodation.