Definitions

1. 1.adaptation (to new or changed conditions, situations, etc.)
2. 2.adaptation (transformation of a literary, musical, filmic, etc. work into another genre or for some purpose, e.g. shortening, simplification; a work thus adapted)
3. 3.adaptation (reconstruction, modification of a building or part of it while preserving its essence)
4. 4.adaptation (of the linguistic means of a foreign language to the usual rules of the native language)