adaptive

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/əˈdæp.tɪv/ (US)

Definition of adaptive

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adj

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.”
“The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent.”
“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.”

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adj

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.”
“The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent.”
“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.
Of a trait: that helps an organism to function well in its environment.
Of a trait: that helps a person to function well in society.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From adapt + -ive.

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