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Definition of Acclimation
1. Noun. Adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment).
Generic synonyms: Adaptation, Adaption, Adjustment
Derivative terms: Acclimate, Acclimatise, Acclimatize
Definition of Acclimation
1. n. The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.
Definition of Acclimation
1. Noun. The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization. ¹
2. Noun. (context: biology) The adaptation of an organism to its natural climatic environment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Acclimation
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Medical Definition of Acclimation
1. Adaptation to a new environment or to a change in the old. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acclimation
Literary usage of Acclimation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Recently a great deal has been learned about the environmental control of cold
acclimation by (i) dividing plants with light or temperature barriers (split ..."
2. A Treatise on Hygiene: With Special Reference to the Military Service by William Alexander Hammond (1863)
"Br acclimation we understand the process by which an individual becomes naturalized
to any particular climate to which he is not accustomed. ..."
3. The Navy Seal Physical Fitness Guide edited by Patricia A. Deuster (1997)
"Heat acclimation Adapting to a hot environment can take one to three weeks; for
physically fit individuals, 75% of acclimation occurs during the first week ..."
4. Senescence and Rejuvenescence by Charles Manning Child (1915)
"In the low concentrations of reagents used in the acclimation ... 82-84), starved
animals show very little capacity for acclimation as compared with ..."
5. Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography by Daniel Garrison Brinton (1890)
"I. The problem of acclimation. Various answers. Europeans in the tropics. ...
Theories of acclimation. Conclusion. 2. The problem of amalgamation. ..."
6. ... Indigenous Races of the Earth: Or, New Chapters of Ethnological Inquiry by Josiah Clark Nott, George Robins Gliddon, Louis-Ferdinand-Alfred Maury, James Aitken Meigs (1868)
""We propose, in the present chapter, to investigate the subject of acclimation;
that is to say, of Races, in their relations to Climate, ..."
7. The Institutes of Medicine by Martyn Paine (1862)
"In the case, for instance, of acclimation (§ 551), if the subject return to a
salubrious climate, it may be many months, or years, before the system will ..."
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