adaptation

noun8

1. •
   The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.

   • To sum up, the Furka-Oberalp Railway is a good example of the adaptation of the rack-and-pinion system to a main line over mountainous terrain. — 1950
2. •
   The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.
3. •
   The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.

   • Plays are rich and suitable sources for adaptation to film. — 2010
4. •
   The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments.
5. •
   A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.

   • It's staggering because these adaptations to your schedule can dramatically change your life forever. — 1999
6. •
   An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.

   • This is the very method adopted, in the structure of the eye, to produce a perfect picture on the retina; it is an adaptation to the laws of light, and the property of color, in natural objects. — 1844
7. •
   An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.
8. •
   The process of replacing a given morpheme of a source lexeme with an equivalent morpheme of the target lexeme, especially where the two morphemes are cognates.