acclimation
- a word derived from acclimate.
Example Sentences
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City Section teams began five days of mandatory acclimation periods to get players into shape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
He says English proficiency as essential for acclimation, and recommends that federal and state governments, as well as trucker associations, offer subsidized programs to help immigrants learn English as a second language.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025
Jones noted that there is growing interest in studying the heat tolerance and acclimation capacity of ectotherms in the face of changing abiotic conditions such as ambient temperature.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2024
For instance, two weeks of heat acclimation scores an athlete plus-4 points.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
But there are many reintroduction efforts that don’t do hard releases yet do employ some type of acclimation process,where the species is slowly transitioned back into the wild—using a staged, or “soft,” release.
From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh
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