adapt
verb (used with object)
to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly.
adaptedness
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a word derived from
adapt.
Example Sentences
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Laland and colleagues are correct that phenotypic plasticity, for instance, may contribute to the adaptedness of an individual.
From Nature ● Oct. 7, 2014
In too many schools some youth in the adolescent period is made secretary, merely to keep him in the school, without consideration of his capacity and adaptedness to the office.
From Organizing and Building Up the Sunday School Modern Sunday School Manuals by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
His task requires peculiar adaptedness, supplemented by special training.
From Organizing and Building Up the Sunday School Modern Sunday School Manuals by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
The principle of the adaptedness of parts may be used as an explanatory principle, enabling the naturalist to trace out in detail the interdependence of functions and their organs.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
But such effects are heritable, whatever their nature with respect to adaptedness, and it becomes therefore very important to find out what are the conditions that may thus disturb the normal structure of the germ.
From The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics by William E. Kellicott
