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əˈdæp tɪvadap·tive

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Wiktionary3.0 / 2 votes

  1. adaptiveadjective

    Synonyms:
    adaptative

  2. adaptiveadjective

    Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.

    Synonyms:
    adaptative, adaptable

  3. adaptiveadjective

    Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.

    Synonyms:
    adaptative, adaptable

  4. adaptiveadjective

    Of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society.

    Synonyms:
    adaptable, adaptative

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. adaptive, adaptativeadjective

    having a capacity for adaptation

    "the adaptive coloring of a chameleon"

    Synonyms:
    adaptative

    Antonyms:
    maladjustive, nonadaptive, maladaptive, dysfunctional

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How to use adaptive in a sentence?

  1. Eva Telzer:

    Heightened sensitivity could lead to later compulsive social media behaviors, or it could reflect an adaptive neural change that helps teens navigate their social worlds.

  2. Chetan Dube:

    The question we would ask is, ‘Does all infrastructure need to be managed by people? Or is the infrastructure capable of self-managing, self-governing and self-healing?’ my father used to have some power plants, and I would go there, and they would have almost nobody managing them, because almost all the processes of remediation were built in. The technological maturity curve that almost any industry goes through has a level of evolution. At some point, can the systems, the network and the servers become self-aware and self-governing? IPcenter was the product realization of adaptive learning systems that would be able to self-govern. That was our first big steppingstone toward cognitive technologies.

  3. Ian Gilby:

    Nevertheless, recognizing the adaptive value of male-female aggression in chimpanzees may inevitably help us to understand, and hopefully prevent, similar behavior among humans.

  4. Zhang Hanwen:

    The aim of the game in this boom period of proboscidean evolution was' adapt or die,' habitat perturbations were relentless, pertained to the ever-changing global climate, continuously promoting new adaptive solutions while proboscideans that didn't keep up were literally, left for dead. The once greatly diverse and widespread mastodonts were eventually reduced to less than a handful of species in the Americas, including the familiar Ice Age American mastodon.

  5. Michel Milinkovitch:

    This beautiful fine pattern of millions of channels is adaptive.


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