Noun

(en noun)

The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement .}}

* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April

, author= , title=Well-connected Brains , volume=100, issue=2, page=171 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work. The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, […].}}

A great or heroic deed or feat; something accomplished by valor or boldness

* [The exploits] of the ancient saints do far surpass the most famous achievements of pagan heroes. - (Isaac Barrow)

* The highest achievements of the human intellect. - (Thomas Babington Macaulay)

(heraldry) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.

(video games) An award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective in a video game.

Noun

(senseid) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.

(label) Adaptation or adjustment.

# The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.

#* (rfdate), Sir (1609-1676)

The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.

# A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.

#*

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}

# The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.

# The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.

(label) Adaptation or adjustment.

# Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

# Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.

#* (rfdate), (1800-1859)

To come to terms of accommodation .

# (label) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

#* (rfdate), (William Paley) (1743-1805)

Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations .

# A loan of money.

# An accommodation bill or note.

# An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.

The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.