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Plural of adaptation

regular plural

The plural of adaptation is adaptations.

Forms of adaptation

Singularadaptation /ˌæd.əpˈteɪ.ʃən/
Pluraladaptations
Countablecountable and uncountable

Adaptations in a sentence

  • It's staggering because these adaptations to your schedule can dramatically change your life forever.1999, Jim Meisenheimer, How to Double Your Sales Without Quadrupling Your Effort, Helbern, →ISBN, page 41
  • Having partly a bibliographic value, and partly confirming the statements above as to Balzac's influence, the following details concerning theatrical adaptations of some of his novels may serve as a supplement to this chapter.1910, Frederick Lawton, Balzac
  • Psammophilous plants tend to have adaptations to resist damage from wind-blown sand.From the entry psammophilous
  • Although in the actual story, her victory is extremely limited, flanderization takes hold in adaptations.2012 December 21, David Johnson, “Re: Elementary – Episode 8 – The Long Fuse”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet). From the entry flanderization
  • New World porcupines have some arboreal adaptations that are lacking in their more terrestrial Old World counterparts.2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Mammalogy, page 227. From the entry New World porcupine

Meaning of adaptation

  1. noun The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
  2. noun A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
  3. noun The process of replacing a given morpheme of a source lexeme with an equivalent morpheme of the target lexeme, especially where the two morphemes are cognates.

Full definition of adaptation

Questions about the plural of adaptation

What is the plural of adaptation?
The plural of adaptation is adaptations.
Is adaptation countable?
Adaptation is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adaptation (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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