- adaptation, version - a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form; "the play is an adaptation of a short novel"
--1 is a kind of writing, written material, piece of writing
--1 has particulars: modernization; versification - adaptation, adjustment - the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)
--2 is a kind of organic process, biological process
--2 has particulars:acclimatization, acclimatisation, acclimation; dedifferentiation; domestication; specialization, specialisation, differentiation Derived form: verb adapt2 - adaptation - (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)
--3 is a kind of alteration, modification, adjustment
--3 has particulars: dark adaptation; light adaptation