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adaptive
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈdæp.tɪv/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
adaptive (comparative more adaptive, superlative most adaptive)
- Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.
- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it issued a final rule allowing what’s called “adaptive driving beam headlights” on new vehicles. It will go into effect when published in the Federal Register in the next few days.
- 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.
- 2024, NTSB, Highway Investigation Report, HIR-24-05:
- Advanced vehicle technologies, including automatic emergency braking and adaptive cruise control, were available as standard equipment for this truck-tractor; however, the carrier opted not to purchase these systems. We found that the collision may have been avoided or its severity lessened had these systems been installed on the truck-tractor. Because commercial vehicle customers can elect not to purchase collision avoidance systems, even those that are considered standard equipment, federal requirements are necessary to increase widespread deployment of this technology.
- Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
- (evolutionary theory) Of a trait: that helps an organism to function well in its environment.
- (psychology) Of a trait: that helps a person 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 control
- adaptive cruise control
- adaptive enzyme
- adaptive equalization
- adaptive expectations
- adaptive filter
- adaptive hypertrophy
- adaptive immune system
- adaptive immunity
- adaptive intelligence
- adaptive learning
- 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 tile refresh
- adaptive value
- adaptive zone
- adaptivity
- coadaptive
- counteradaptive
- disadaptive
- idioadaptive
- inadaptive
- mechanoadaptive
- multiadaptive
- neuroadaptive
- osmoadaptive
- pathoadaptive
- photoadaptive
- postadaptive
- preadaptive
- proadaptive
- radioadaptive
- seroadaptive
- unadaptive
- viscoadaptive
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
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of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society
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References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “adaptive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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French
Adjective
adaptive
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
adaptive
- inflection of adaptiv:
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