Adaptive
serving or able to ; showing or contributing to :
the adaptive coloring of a chameleon.
Contemporary Examples
What adaptive technology has been the most useful or important for you?
‘The Paralyzed Bride’ Talks Life & Sex as a 27-Year-Old Quadriplegic February 26, 2013
To see the adaptive benefits of depression, it helps to consider certain cruel but illuminating studies.
How Depression Could Save Your Life Nick Romeo March 3, 2014
And with a little luck, these adaptive techniques can work to our advantage.
Sharks Are Scary But Not That Dangerous Juliet Eilperin June 15, 2011
But like the organization he now runs, he is agile and adaptive.
Bin Laden’s Replacement Bruce Riedel June 15, 2011
One sign that depression is an adaptive behavioral response is its widespread presence in the animal kingdom.
How Depression Could Save Your Life Nick Romeo March 3, 2014
Historical Examples
All organic and structural changes are adaptive from the first; they do not need natural selection to whip them into shape.
The Last Harvest John Burroughs
The facility of speech, the adaptive moulding to another’s mood was not in him!
A Man of Two Countries Alice Harriman
As yet there is no clear evidence that reduction of the zygomatic arch is of adaptive value.
Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz John M. Legler
In other words every character in plant or animal must be adaptive.
Mimicry in Butterflies Reginald Crundall Punnett
It also points to the adaptive capacity of social organization within communities to deal with unique and dramatic problems.
An Assessment of the Consequences and Preparations for a Catastrophic California Earthquake: Findings and Actions Taken Various
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- Adaptive behavior scale
adaptive behavior scale adaptive behavior scale a·dap·tive behavior scale (ə-dāp’tĭv) n. A series of tests used to quantify the ability of mentally retarded and developmentally delayed individuals to live independently. The tests assess personal self-sufficiency, as in eating and dressing, community self-sufficiency, as in shopping and communicating, and personal and social responsibility, as in job […]
- Adaptive communication environment
adaptive communication environment communications, tool A C++ wrapper library for communications from the University of California at Irvine. (1995-03-16)
- Adaptive hypertrophy
adaptive hypertrophy adaptive hypertrophy n. Hypertrophic enlargement in response to a condition, such as the thickening of the walls of a hollow organ when there is obstruction to outflow.
- Adaptive learning
adaptive learning algorithm (Or “Hebbian learning”) Learning where a system programs itself by adjusting weights or strengths until it produces the desired output. (1995-03-16)