different between adaptation vs adapter

English

Alternative forms

• adaption

Etymology

From French adaptation, from Medieval Latin adapt?ti?, from Latin adapt? (“I fit, adjust, modify; I adapt, fit or adjust to”); see adapt. Equivalent to adapt +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?ædæp?te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: ad?ap?ta?tion

Noun

adaptation (countable and uncountable, plural adaptations)

1. (uncountable) The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
   • 2015, Jon M. Hawes, Proceedings of the 1989 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference, Springer (?ISBN), page 70

     Lifestyle adaptation arises because people inevitably encounter a gap between the style of life they desire and the actual resources they control.

2. (countable) A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
   • 1999, Jim Meisenheimer, How to Double Your Sales Without Quadrupling Your Effort, Helbern (?ISBN), page 41

     It's staggering because these adaptations to your schedule can dramatically change your life forever.

3. (uncountable, evolutionary theory) The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.

   Antonym: maladaptation

4. (countable, evolutionary theory) An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.
   • 1844, Robert Sears, The Guide to Knowledge, Or Repertory of Facts: Forming a Complete Library of Entertaining Information, in the Several Departments of Science, Lterature, and Art, Embellished by Several Hundred Engravings, page 465

     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.

5. (uncountable) The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.
   • 2010, David K. Irving, Fundamentals of Film Directing, McFarland (?ISBN), page 19

     Plays are rich and suitable sources for adaptation to film.

6. (countable, authorship) An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.

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Translations

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin adapt?ti?, from Latin adapt? (“I fit, adjust, modify; I adapt, fit or adjust to”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dap.ta.sj??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: adaptations

Noun

adaptation f (plural adaptations)

1. adaptation (all senses)

Related terms

• adapter

Further reading

• “adaptation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• adaptor

Etymology

From adapt +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??dapt?/
• enPR: ?-d?p?t?r
• Hyphenation: adap?ter

Noun

adapter (plural adapters)

1. One who is capable of adapting to differing situations.

   He was an able adapter, and could easily adjust to the differences when the company changed ownership.

2. One who adapts a thing, e.g. a play.

   The critic gave rave reviews to the adapter of the ancient play, who worked to give the text more relevance to the modern day.

3. A device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible.

   He had an adapter that let him plug his phone into the car's cigarette lighter for power.

   1. Specifically, a device that permits two, three, or more plugs to be used at a single electrical power point.

      The wall outlet sprouted an electrical monstrosity of adapters plugged into adapters that sparked ominously.

   2. Specifically, a device that allows one format of plug to be used with a different format of socket.

      We bought adapters to use our three-prong plugs in the two-prong, unpolarized outlets of the old house.

   3. Specifically, an AC adapter: a device that reduces voltage and converts AC to DC to allow a battery-powered device to use mains power.

      I lost my cellphone's adapter so I couldn't recharge it.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (adaput?)

Translations

Further reading

• adapter on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• re-adapt, readapt

Estonian

Noun

adapter (genitive adapteri, partitive adapterit)

1. adapter (device)

Declension

(nonstandard)

French

Etymology

From Latin adaptare, from ad + aptare (“to fit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dap.te/

Verb

adapter

1. (transitive) to adapt
2. (reflexive, s'adapter) to adapt oneself or itself

Conjugation

Derived terms

• adaptable
• adapteur
• sport adapté

Further reading

• “adapter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• dérapât

Latin

Verb

adapter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of adapt?

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adapt?.

Verb

adapter

1. to adapt

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (adapter, supplement)

Polish

Etymology

From English adapter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?dap.t?r/

Noun

adapter m inan

1. (electronics) adapter (device for connecting different appliances or parts)

   Synonyms: przej?ciówka, rozga??ziacz

2. (music) gramophone, phonograph, record player

   Synonym: gramofon

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) adapterowy

Further reading

• adapter in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• adapter in Polish dictionaries at PWN