accommodation

Meanings

Plural: accommodations

Noun

• making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
• a settlement of differences
  • "they reached an accommodation with Japan"
• in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality
• living quarters provided for public convenience
  • "overnight accommodations are available"
• the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need
• (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye
• Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
• Adaptation or adjustment.
• The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
• Adaptation or adjustment.
• A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
• Adaptation or adjustment.
• The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
• Adaptation or adjustment.
• The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
• Adaptation or adjustment.
• Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
• Adaptation or adjustment.
• Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
• Adaptation or adjustment.
• The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
• Adaptation or adjustment.
• A loan of money.
• Adaptation or adjustment.
• An accommodation bill or note.
• Adaptation or adjustment.
• An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
• Adaptation or adjustment.
• An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness.
• The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
• Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.

Synonyms

adjustment, fitting