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adapt
(redirected from adaptivity)

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adapt someone or something
to something to cause someone or something to change, adjust to, or get used to something else. Can't you adapt yourself to my way of doing things?

adapt something for something

to change or alter something for use with something else. Has this furnace been adapted for natural gas?

adapt something from something

to derive something from something else; to create by modifying something else. I adapted my new musical from a novel.

adapt something to something

to convert something to fit or work with something else. We converted our furnace to natural gas.

adapt to something

to adapt or get used to someone or something. Please try to adapt to our routine.


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Adaptability and Adaptivity in TRANSLAB The concept of 'adaptation' is an important issue in research for learning systems (Nikov and Pohl, 1999).
Examples of relevant behavioral domains include, but are not limited to, social behaviors, resilience, vitality, adaptivity, personality, vulnerability to stress, health behaviors, social cognition, human and social capital accumulation, economic savings for retirement, risk-taking, happiness, coping, caregiving, cognitive abilities, cognitive flexibility, cognitive reserve, learning, and functional abilities.
Simmetrix' flagship product is the Simulation Modeling Suite, a comprehensive set of toolkits to support Simulation Modeling directly from solid models providing problem definition, attribute management, and automatic mesh generation with support of mesh curving, mesh adaptivity, and anisotropic boundary layer mesh generation.
 
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