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changing to adjust to different circumstances; or something changed for that reason
in 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"
- No portion of the masonry had fallen; and there appeared to be a wild inconsistency between its still perfect adaptation of parts, and the crumbling condition of the individual stones.3 — The Fall of the House of Usher (16% in)
There are no more uses of "adaptation" in Selected Tales by Poe.
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