ACCOMMODATION
\ɐkˌɒmədˈe͡ɪʃən], \ɐkˌɒmədˈeɪʃən], \ɐ_k_ˌɒ_m_ə_d_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of ACCOMMODATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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(physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the lens of the eye
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living quarters provided for public convenience; "overnight accommodations are available"
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a settlement of differences; "they reached an accommodation with Japan"
By Princeton University
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(physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the lens of the eye
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living quarters provided for public convenience; "overnight accommodations are available"
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a settlement of differences; "they reached an accommodation with Japan"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
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An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.
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The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
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A loan of money.
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An accommodation bill or note.
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The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; - followed by to.
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Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; - often in the plural; as, the accommodations - that is, lodgings and food - at an inn.
By Oddity Software
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Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
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An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.
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The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
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A loan of money.
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An accommodation bill or note.
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The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; - followed by to.
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Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; - often in the plural; as, the accommodations - that is, lodgings and food - at an inn.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Adaptation, adjustment; specifically, alteration of the convexity of the crystalline lens in order to bring divergent rays from a near point to a focus on the retina.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Convenience: fitness: adjustment: a loan of money.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Adjustment; compromise.
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A convenlence; entertainment; loan.
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An accommodating disposition; obligingness.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Conveniences; things furnished for use; also in.
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Adaptation, especially of one thing to another, so as to make them agree or correspond; adjustment; reconciliation; provision of conveniences in supply of a want.
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A loan of money. Accommodation bill or note, one given instead of a loan of money, or which has been drawn and accepted expressly for the purpose of borrowing money, in contradistinction to a bill given in payment of goods or value received. Accommodation ladder, a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Adjustment; especially, adjustment of the eye for various distances of vision.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The process by which the refractive power of the eye is changed in accordance with the distance at which an object is to be viewed so as to secure a distinct focus on the retina.
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The process by which an organ or an entire organism adapts itself to a change in its conditions or environment.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. The act of fitting, or the state of being fitted ; adaptation;—whatever supplies a want or affords ease or conÂvenience—chiefly in the plural ;—an adjustment of differences ; reconciliation ;—a loan of money ;—a note or a fictitious bill drawn and accepted to raise money on, not bona fide given in payment of a debt.
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Provision of conveniencies; in the plural, conveniencies, things requisite to ease or refreshment; composition of a difference, reconciliation, adjustment.
By Thomas Sheridan
