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acclimation|æklɪˈmeɪʃən|
[f. acclimate, by form-assoc. with words like narrate, narration, in which -ate is a vbl. ending: in acclimate it is part of the stem.]
= acclimatation or acclimatization; but see last quot.
1826Flint Recoll. 132 The gradual process of acclimation. 1837T. Bacon First Imp. Hindostan I. p. vii, English residents in India imbibe peculiarities in the process of acclimation. 1853Kane Grinnell Exped. (1856) iii. 26 [I] could temper down at pleasure the abruptness of my acclimation. 1859Sat. Rev. 12 Feb. 183/2 With such animals as these [American deer] acclimation is comparatively easy. 1878Bartley tr. Topinard's Anthrop. ii. viii. 393 The words acclimation and acclimatization are not synonymous. The former is understood of the spontaneous and natural accommodation to new climatic conditions, the latter of the intervention of man in this accommodation. |