Adaptation

Examples

• Together they set about designing the machine to make it as nearly perfect as possible in adaptation to the needs of modern business. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The discovery may long precede its adaptation in physical form, and both the discovery and adaptation may occur together. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• That the small size of the egg is a real case of adaptation we may infer from the fact of the mon-parasitic American cuckoo laying full-sized eggs. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In 1639 Galileo, then old and blind, dictated to his son one of his books in which he discussed the isochronal properties of oscillating bodies, and their adaptation as time measures. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This adaptation of the needle to looms has placed ribbons within the reach of the poor as well as the rich girl. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But intellectual tools are indefinitely more flexible in their range of adaptation than other mechanical tools. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Bowling, as we know today, is an indoor adaptation of, and an improvement upon, the old Dutch game of nine-pins. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and seizing insects in the chinks of the bark? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The more tenacious the memory, the richer the supply of image s, the greater the powers of adaptation and survival. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• There is no finality in adaptation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This adaptation is attained in various ways. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The practical method of securing the proper and ready adaptation of balances to springs is to place in the rims of the balance a number of small screws having relatively heavy heads. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Adaptation, Mr. Lloyd George admitted, there had to be. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the degree of adaptation of species to the climates under which they live is often overrated. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• An electric lamp answering certain specific requirements would, indeed, be the key to the situation, but its commercial adaptation required a multifarious variety of apparatus and devices. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Special contrivances and adaptations of the telegraph for printing stock reports and for transmitting fire alarm, police, and emergency calls, have been invented. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Both involve ends consciously entertained and the selection and adaptations of materials and processes designed to effect the desired ends. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The real, like the Platonic Socrates, as we gather from the Memorabilia of Xenophon, was fond of making similar adaptations. Plato. The Republic.
• These adaptations, no doubt, made the new teaching much more understandable and acceptable in Egypt and Syria and the like. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Inventors came forward with adaptations of all the old systems they could think of for the purpose, and with many new ones. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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