All 3 Uses of
adaptation
in
Atlas Shrugged
- It's my own adaptation of the morning room of a famous French palace —but things like that can't possibly interest you, darling, there's no stock market quotation on them, none whatever.†
Chpt 1.6
- This design is an adaptation of the best bridges on record.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- They're just adaptations of standard equipment.†
Chpt 3.2
Definition:
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(adaptation) changing to adjust to different circumstances; or something changed for that reasonin various senses, including:
- film script based on a novel -- as in "the screen adaptation of Rowling's novel"
- changes in the species resulting from environmental conditions -- as in"the adaptation of the finch to the Galapagos Islands"
- changes in the eye to adjust to the amount of light -- as in "adaptation to the darkness"