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ADAPTATION — L’OBSERVATION des comportements est au principe des différentes théories qui explicitent les mécanismes et les modalités de l’adaptation. À cet objet d’étude pluridisciplinaire sont principalement associées les idées d’évolution, d’accommodation… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Adaptation. — (film) Pour les articles homonymes, voir Adaptation. Adaptation Titre original Adaptation. Réalisation Spike Jonze Acteurs principaux Nicolas Cage Meryl Streep … Wikipédia en Français
Adaptation (Œil) — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Adaptation. Le mécanisme d’adaptation permet à l œil de voir dans des environnements lumineux différents. Définition On distingue 2 mécanismes : l’adaptation à l’obscurité ; l’adaptation à la lumière.… … Wikipédia en Français
Adaptation. — Título Adaptation (El ladrón de orquídeas) Ficha técnica Dirección Spike Jonze Producción Edward Saxon Jonathan Demme Vicent Landay … Wikipedia Español
adaptation — UK [ˌædæpˈteɪʃ(ə)n] / US or adaption UK [əˈdæpʃ(ə)n] / US noun Word forms adaptation : singular adaptation plural adaptations * 1) [countable] a film, TV programme etc that has been made from a book or play The television adaptation of the stage… … English dictionary
Adaptation — Ad ap*ta tion, n. [Cf. F. adaptation, LL. adaptatio.] 1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. Adaptation of the means to the end. Erskine. [1913 Webster] 2. The result of adapting; an… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adaptation — index accommodation (adjustment), adjustment, compromise, habituation, innovation, modification, propriety ( … Law dictionary
ADAPTATION — Adaptation (hon’an) is a term that was used throughout the Tokugawa period to refer to translated literary works, in contrast to hon’yaku, which was reserved for medical and scientific texts. Though adaptations often parallel the original… … Japanese literature and theater
adaptation — (n.) c.1600, action of adapting, from Fr. adaptation, from L.L. adaptationem (nom. adaptatio), noun of action from pp. stem of adaptare (see ADAPT (Cf. adapt)). Meaning condition of being adapted is from 1670s. Sense of modification of a thing to … Etymology dictionary
adaptation — [n1] act of adapting adjustment, adoption, alteration, conversion, modification, refitting, remodeling, reworking, shift, transformation, variation; concept 697 adaptation [n2] condition of something resulting from change acclimatization,… … New thesaurus
adaptation — Adaptation. s. f. v. Application. L Adaptation de ce passage est juste … Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
