adaptive

adaptive

English

Etymology

adapt +‎ -ive

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈdæpˌtɪv/

Adjective

adaptive (comparative more adaptive, superlative most adaptive)

1. Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.
   • 1859, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species:

     The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent.

   • 1896, C. Lloyd Morgan, On Modification and Variation:

     That variation of germinal origin is a fact in organic nature is admitted on all hands, and that some variations are adaptive is also unquestioned.

2. Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
3. (psychology) Of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society.

Synonyms

• (capable of being adapted): adaptable
• adaptative

Antonyms

• maladaptive

Derived terms

• adaptive beamformer
• adaptive behaviour
• adaptive bridge
• adaptive clothing
• adaptive coding
• adaptive communications
• adaptive compression
• adaptive enzyme
• adaptive equalization
• adaptive expectations
• adaptive filter
• adaptive hypertrophy
• adaptively
• adaptive management
• adaptive modulation
• adaptiveness
• adaptive optics
• adaptive predictive coding
• adaptive radiation
• adaptive resonance
• adaptive reuse
• adaptive routing
• adaptive switching
• adaptive system
• adaptive technology
• adaptive value
• adaptive zone
• adaptivity
• postadaptive
• preadaptive

 

Related terms

• adapt
• adaptability
• adaptable
• adaptableness
• adaptably
• adaptation
• adaptational
• adaptationary
• adaptative
• adaptatively
• adaptativeness
• adapted
• adaptedness
• adapter
• adaption
• adaptional
• adaptionary
• adaptitude
• adaptly
• adaptness
• adaptorial
• nonadaptive
• nonadaptively
• nonadaptiveness
• nonadaptivity

 

Translations

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

Belarusian: адаптыўны (adaptýŭny) Catalan: adaptatiu m Finnish: mukautuva (fi), sopeutuva (fi), joustava (fi) French: adaptatif (fr)

German: adaptiv (de) Italian: adattivo Persian: سازگار‎ (fa) (sāzgār) Portuguese: adaptativo Russian: адапти́вный (ru) (adaptívnyj) Spanish: adaptativo (es)

capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change

Finnish: mukautuva (fi), sopeutuva (fi), joustava (fi) French: adaptable (fr)

Spanish: adaptable (es)

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

Finnish: sopeutuva (fi), adaptiivinen French: adaptatif (fr)

Spanish: adaptativo (es)

References

• adaptive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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French

Adjective

adaptive

1. feminine singular of adaptif

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German

Adjective

adaptive

1. inflection of adaptiv:
   1. strong and mixed nominative and accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative and accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine and neuter singular