ACCLIMATIZATION, the process ofadaptation by which animals and plants are gradually rendered capable of surviving and flourishing in countries remote from their original habitats, or under meteorological conditions different from those which they have usually to endure, and at first injurious to them.
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, page465:
This is the very method adopted, in the structure of the eye, to produce a perfect picture on the retina; it is anadaptation to the laws of light, and the property of color, in natural objects.
Having partly a bibliographic value, and partly confirming the statements above as to Balzac's influence, the following details concerning theatricaladaptations of some of his novels may serve as a supplement to this chapter.
(sociology) The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments.
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