adaptations
- 1Plural of adaptation.
The novel inspired several stage and screen adaptations over the decades.
Cacti display remarkable adaptations that let them survive long droughts.
Note
A plural that only the countable meanings can take. When adaptation names a process, such as adjusting to a situation, an organism becoming suited to its environment, or reworking a story for another medium, it has no plural. Adaptations always counts separate things: individual changes made to suit a condition, the structures or behaviors an organism has changed, or finished works carried into a new medium.
adaptations is a form of adaptation
adaptation, noun: A change that something is given or goes through so it fits a particular condition or environment. Full entry
- Forms
- adaptationadaptations plural
- Spelling
- adaptation → adaptations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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