Adjustment vs Adaptation - What's the difference?
adjustment | adaptation |
a small change; a minor correction; a modification
The behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
(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.}}
As nouns the difference between adjustment and adaptation
is that adjustment is a small change; a minor correction; a modification while adaptation is the quality of being adapted; adaption; adjustment.adjustment
English
Noun
(en noun)- The credit card company made an adjustment to my account to waive the late fee.
- When Jim graduated, he found adjustment to the working world difficult.