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acclimate /ˈaklɪmeɪt / /əˈklʌɪmət /verb [no object] (often acclimate to) chiefly North American1Acclimatize: helping freshmen to acclimate to college life...- I quickly became acclimated to a variety of cultures and people - which was wonderful because I've always loved learning about new cultures.
- He tells of getting acclimated to Saudi Arabia and the life of an advisor.
- ‘The student-athlete is getting more time to get acclimated to the institution,’ says Steve Mallonee, the NCAA director of membership services and governance liaison.
1.1 Biology Respond physiologically or behaviourally to a change in a single environmental factor: trees may acclimate to high CO2 levels by reducing the number of stomata...- Nevertheless, we hypothesize that that these mice do not physiologically acclimate to chronic heat exposure and instead, respond to heat stress behaviorally or by selecting favorable microclimates.
- The capacity of an animal to acclimate to changes in environmental factors such as temperature may have potentially significant fitness consequences.
- These factors allow the organism to propagate and acclimate to the host's internal environment.
Compare with acclimatize. 1.2 [with object] Botany & Horticulture Harden off (a plant).If you've gardened for more than a season or two you have almost certainly run into this concept, and learned that it is a straightforward process that gradually acclimates the seedling to life in the great outdoors. Derivativesacclimation /akləˈmeɪʃ(ə)n / noun ...- As a consequence, they are forced to cope with their direct environment and have evolved acclimations and adaptations to counteract the long- and short-term stresses they are exposed to.
- Several studies have reported respiratory acclimation or adaptation to changes in temperature, and some back to pre-treatment levels.
- This response is reflected in the actual acclimation and thus the adjustment of processes or structures on time-scales less than one generation.
OriginLate 18th century: from French acclimater, from a- (from Latin ad 'to, at') + climat 'climate'. |