adaptive
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Adjective
adaptive (comparative more adaptive, superlative most adaptive)
- 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.
- Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
- (psychology) Of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society.
Synonyms
- (capable of being adapted): adaptable
- adaptative
Antonyms
Derived terms
- adaptive beamformer
- adaptive behaviour
- adaptive bridge
- adaptive clothing
- adaptive coding
- adaptive communications
- adaptive compression
- adaptive enzyme
- adaptive equalization
- adaptive expectations
- adaptive filter
- adaptive hypertrophy
- adaptively
- adaptive management
- adaptive modulation
- adaptiveness
- adaptive optics
- adaptive predictive coding
- adaptive radiation
- adaptive resonance
- adaptive reuse
- adaptive routing
- adaptive switching
- adaptive system
- adaptive technology
- adaptive value
- adaptive zone
- adaptivity
- postadaptive
- preadaptive
Related terms
Translations
of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable
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capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change
of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society
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References
- “adaptive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French
Adjective
adaptive
German
Pronunciation
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Adjective
adaptive
- inflection of adaptiv: