ACCOMMODATION

Accommodation

Accommodation is the process by which the vertebrate eye changes optical power to maintain a clear image or focus on an object as its distance varies.

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accommodation

Noun

  1. Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
  2. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
  3. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
  4. 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
  5. Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
  6. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
    Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations.
  7. A loan of money.
  8. An accommodation bill or note.
  9. An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted
  10. The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
  11. The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.


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