Adaptive

English

Adjective

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Positive Adaptive

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1. Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.
   • 1859, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species:

     The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent.

   • 1896, C. Lloyd Morgan, On Modification and Variation:

     That variation of germinal origin is a fact in organic nature is admitted on all hands, and that some variations are adaptive is also unquestioned.

2. Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
3. Template:Psychology Of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society.

Synonyms

• (capable of being adapted): adaptable
• adaptative

Derived terms

Derived terms

adaptively adaptiveness adaptivity adaptive beamformer adaptive behaviour adaptive bridge adaptive clothing adaptive coding adaptive communications adaptive compression adaptive enzyme adaptive equalization adaptive expectations adaptive filter adaptive hypertrophy

adaptive management adaptive modulation adaptive optics adaptive predictive coding adaptive radiation adaptive resonance adaptive reuse adaptive routing adaptive switching adaptive system adaptive technology adaptive value adaptive zone

Related terms

Related terms

adapt adaptable adaptative

adaptly adaptorial

Translations

Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable

Finnish: mukautuva, sopeutuva, joustava

Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change

Finnish: mukautuva, sopeutuva, joustava

Of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society

References

• Adaptive in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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