Definition of adaptive in English:
adaptive
adjective əˈdaptɪvəˈdæptɪv
technical Characterized by or given to adaptation.
mutation is ultimately essential for adaptive evolution in all populations
Example sentencesExamples
- The adaptive skills are those daily living skills needed to live, work and play in the community.
- These people tend to have adaptive skills and social and environmental resources.
- The human immune system is a remarkably flexible and adaptive piece of technology.
- You can even make the case that it is an evolutionary adaptive behaviour.
- It also features adaptive headlights that swivel with the direction of travel to illuminate the road ahead.
Derivatives
adverb
technical Only generalised distress, they assert, represents a failure to respond adaptively to social challenge.
Example sentencesExamples
- These traits are adaptively advantageous when people are confronted with suffering, illness, or death, which is inevitable with advancing age.
- These results indicate that male fruit flies adaptively refine their courtship behavior with experience.
- But successful males usually don't respond to early signals of pain adaptively.
- For example, as each telephone set is newly added to the system, the new telephone set adaptively determines its own allocation of resources, e.g., intercom numbers, etc.
noun adapˈtɪvɪti
technical Modular adaptivity for specific missions can be designed in.
Example sentencesExamples
- Age plus adaptivity is what makes a building come to be loved.
- To achieve these new levels of vigilance, safety, and adaptivity, we must fundamentally rethink how we program embedded systems.
- Further, this approach can easily be applied to other nutrient and environmental stresses challenging plant adaptivity, or also to investigations of plant developmental programmes.
- Not surprisingly, the combination of dynamic complexity and the ability to adapt is referred to as complex adaptivity.
Definition of adaptive in US English:
adaptive
adjectiveəˈdaptivəˈdæptɪv
technical Characterized by or given to adaptation.
mutation is ultimately essential for adaptive evolution in all populations
Example sentencesExamples
- The adaptive skills are those daily living skills needed to live, work and play in the community.
- These people tend to have adaptive skills and social and environmental resources.
- It also features adaptive headlights that swivel with the direction of travel to illuminate the road ahead.
- The human immune system is a remarkably flexible and adaptive piece of technology.
- You can even make the case that it is an evolutionary adaptive behaviour.