adaptive

Definition

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

Etymology

From adapt + -ive.

Example Sentences

• "The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it issued a final rule allowing what’s called “adaptive driving beam headlights” on new vehicles. It will go into effect when published in the Federal Register in the next few days."
• "The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent."
• "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."

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