Noun

(label) The quality of being adapted; adaption; adjustment.

(label) Adjustment to extant conditions: as, adjustment of a sense organ to the intensity or quality of stimulation; modification of some thing or its parts that makes it more fit for existence under the conditions of its current environment.

* {{quote-book, title=, year=1911

, passage=ACCLIMATIZATION, the process of adaptation by which animals and plants are gradually rendered capable of surviving and flourishing in countries remote from their original habitats, or under meteorological conditions different from those which they have usually to endure, and at first injurious to them.}}

(label) Something which has been adapted; variation.

* {{quote-book, author=Frederick Lawton, title=, year=1910

, passage=Having partly a bibliographic value, and partly confirming the statements above as to Balzac's influence, the following details concerning theatrical adaptations of some of his novels may serve as a supplement to this chapter.}}

Noun

State of things being similar or identical.

A point of resemblance; a similarity.

State of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard.

The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity.

How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself. -