Adaptations

Examples

• 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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