Accommodation vs. Adaptation — What's the Difference?

A room, group of rooms, or building in which someone may live or stay

In biology, adaptation has three related meanings. Firstly, it is the dynamic evolutionary process that fits organisms to their environment, enhancing their evolutionary fitness.

A convenient arrangement; a settlement or compromise

The act or process of adapting.

The process of adapting or adjusting to someone or something

The state of being adapted.

The act of accommodating or the state of being accommodated; adjustment.

Something, such as a device or mechanism, that is changed or changes so as to become suitable to a new or special application or situation.

Something that meets a need; a convenience.

A composition that has been recast into a new form

Room and board; lodgings.

Change or adjustment in structure or habits by which a species becomes better able to function in its environment, occurring through the course of evolution by means of natural selection.

A seat, compartment, or room on a public vehicle.

A structure or habit that results from this process.

Reconciliation or settlement of opposing views.

(Physiology) The responsive adjustment of a sense organ, such as the eye, to varying conditions, such as light intensity.

(Physiology) The automatic adjustment in the focal length of the lens of the eye to permit retinal focus of images of objects at varying distances.

Change in behavior of a person or group in response to new or modified surroundings.

A financial favor, such as a loan.

(uncountable) The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.

Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.

(countable) A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.

(physical) Adaptation or adjustment.

The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.

An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.

A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.

(uncountable) The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.

The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.

An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.

The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.

(sociology) The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments.

(personal) Adaptation or adjustment.

The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.

Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

The result of adapting; an adapted form.

Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.

A written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form;

(countable) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

The process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)

A loan of money.

(physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)

An accommodation bill or note.

An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.

(theology) An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness.

The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.

Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; - followed by to.

Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; - often in the plural; as, the accommodations - that is, lodgings and food - at an inn.

An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.

The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

A loan of money.

Making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances

A settlement of differences;

In the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality

Living quarters provided for public convenience;

The act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need

(physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the lens of the eye